Filters Pane (Smartfilters) now available; plus new updates!

Hi @Miceile Barrett,

Super excited about the FIlters Pane, especially allowing for a tree format, this is what had been keeping me from shifting our company to the new document libraray experience (which I love).

I may, however, have stumbled upon a bug.

When using managed metadata, in Library Settings, in the meta data column, if I allow multiple values, it creates a problem for the filter pane. Namely, if I then select more than one check box in the filter pane for that managed metadata, it gives an error message. And a cryptic one at that: "The specified view is invalid. The specified view might have been deleted or you might not have permission to view it. Contact the site owner for more information."

Since I suspect this is something you are going to want to address, I will provide additional detail below, along with screenshots.

First, here is how it worked in the classic view. I enabled multiple values, created a document, and set the properties of the document to two values.

As you can see below, when, in the classic Smartfilters, I select the parent term it properly shows the item that has the related child terms.

Now, in your Filters Pane in the Modern Experience I was super excited the way you have the check boxes set up. I no longer would have to choose between viewing one child term or viewing all child terms (by selecting the parent term).

However, when viewing that library in the Modern Experience, when I check more than one box in that same metadata term set, I get the following error message.

Now if I go into the library setting for the column, and uncheck "Allow multiple values" like this:

And then go back to that same Filters Pane view, a voila, it works again, no error message.

I hope you can find a way to fix this is a way that still allows for us to use multiple values. After all, one of the big selling points for using SharePoint instead of a file share is that you can tag an item multple ways, so you no longer have to pick one folder to save a file in.

I also hope you can keep the check box format of the filters pane so that you could, say, check two child terms and just see the results of that. I was really excited to see the possibility of that in how you designed filter panes.

Feel free to contact me if I can be helpful in testing, etc.

Is there a limit of 3 filters that can show at one time in a library?   I cannot get more than 3 filters to show in the panel, regardless of the number of columns in the library view. 

When reviewing this support article, it mentions 3 default filters show.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-filters-to-change-your-view-of-files-or-list-items-293561ed-fb2e-4fb2-9a9f-8a21e299e323

Thank you Miceile Barrett. This helps only to some extent with the earlier problem that I reported.

1. However, note that it still has problems with the metadata (especially enterprise term-sets). In the classic-mode we have set metadata filtering on the document libraries and selected 5 term-sets for the users to be able to filter their documents on. In the modern-mode, filter-pane picks only one of the term-sets (the first one) and the rest are not available. Is this a regression?
2. The links to "Click to see all" are messed up mashups with the tooltip. See the screenshot below: 

3. The "Click to see all" link open a property-pane to show the list of term-set values to choose from. This list looks incomplete. And moreover the buttons are faceless!!! See the screenshot below:

Fantastic to see that the "Filters pane" is now included, I really needed it and use it for my team.
What I cannot find so far is how to organize/customize the pane.
Such as..
- remove a column from the filters pane
- order the columns within the filters pane

Can you please help me to find this options?

Thanks so much!

Other than that - well done!

Hi Miceile Barrett,

I have a custom document library, with a custom image content type, that currently hosts about 110 images. 

SmartFilters worked before, but with less items. Now everytime I click the FiltersPane Icon, it's just stuck at "loading". 

Did something change for custom libraries, custom content types? FiltersPane works in every other doclib I tested.

Also some additional feedback I wish the FiltersPane would do: currently it only shows possible filter options from the folder location that is currently active, meaning it doesn't show options for items in subfolders. I wish the filterpane would just show all items from the document library (or from the current position and below), even if they are located in subfolders. Activating a filter would simply show the folder where the item is positioned.