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gcjuw84
Brass Contributor
Jul 03, 2019

Grouped view drag and drop metadata

I have a grouped view setup in a document library, which is 2 levels deep:   We're trying to encourage users to use metadata rather than save things in folders and one of the features that wo...
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SPNass
Copper Contributor
Apr 09, 2020

gcjuw84 pnthrzrule Rob Barker prasb Sam-H12  Pernille-Eskebo 

 

Hi All,

 

I confirm that I'm in the exact same situation.

We managed to convince users to adopt metadata on their documents showing them this feature.

This is an important regression as this was perfectly working a couple of months ago.

This feature being no longer available, the user adoption is quite impacted.

It's discouraging end-users to tag their document and forcing them to get back to bad habits using folders and so on.

 

Any news from Pernille-Eskebo or any clue on how to make this work ?

    • Rob Barker's avatar
      Rob Barker
      Iron Contributor
      May 14, 2020

      jvandall, it's still not working in my tenant... :sad: :cry: :facepalm: 

    • pnthrzrule's avatar
      pnthrzrule
      Iron Contributor
      May 13, 2020

      jvandall 

       

      Yes, I just tested it. However, I am very reluctant to really push this feature - mainly because it seems unstable and Microsoft has never mentioned it in any update I ever recall seeing. You would think that something like this would have been promoted as a new feature by Microsoft. I am on targeted release; however, a majority of my end users are not. I will have some of the test to see if it works for them. If it only works for targeted release, it leads me to believe that they are still working on this and may add it to the roadmap later (or maybe I missed the roadmap item?).

       

      I feel like they are constantly testing things out on targeted release in the background without ever letting the targeted release peeps know. I know that's part of the deal with targeted release; however, it would be nice to know what is being tested so we can provide feedback. I will stop rambling now.

      • gcjuw84's avatar
        gcjuw84
        Brass Contributor
        May 13, 2020

        I would agree with this, so far this feature seems to have been extremely unreliable and I wouldn't have confidence that if we told our users about it today it would still be working tomorrow.

        Also, I think until more than two layers of metadata grouping are added it's still going to be a hard sell to our users as an alternative to folders.

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    jvandall
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 21, 2020

    SPNass

    Pernille-Eskebo 

    Can this feature be reactivated... It worked great 1.5 months ago when dragging files into the group and assigning the metadata.