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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
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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.

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      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.

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

        gcjuw84 

         

        True...another thing that makes even metadata in general a hard sell is the fact that channels in MS Teams creates an actual old school folder inside the default doc library. I know that MS has never officially denounced folders; however, some folks in the industry tend to move folks towards metadata and away from folders. I'm growing to to believe that it's not (and never has been) about folders over metadata or vice versa. To me, it's more of a BOTH AND versus an EITHER OR situation.

         

        While I've got your attention...has anyone been hearing about MS retiring the Teamwork Administrator Associate Certification? I'm working towards this and I ran across a URL that implies MS is retiring it. My testing center has stated they contacted MS Directly and that they are NOT retiring the program. It also doesn't show up on the to be retired list as shown in the link below.

         

        https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/retired-certifications.aspx

         

        The link in question is this apparent May 2020 Newsletter that states MS is retiring the Teamwork Admin Assoc Certification:

         

        https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/newsletter-May-2020-cert-exam-updates-lpmctmc.aspx

         

        I even posted the above link in the Certification Help forum (moderated by MS itself) and the response I received from an actual moderator is that the cert is being retired in August. 

         

        I replied to the moderator stating that something didn't make sense. Let's hope they look into more. I won't believe the certification is being retired until it shows up on the retired/retiring list.