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MC87299 - SharePoint Online SmartFilters Announcement
Hi MarcDAnderson,
I am Miceile, and am working on this feature and the rollout process. I apologize for the confusion and would like to clarify.
The goal of this feature is to help users discover relevant and useful content within their lists and document libraries. To access this feature, you will click the fliter icon located at the top right of your list or library.
Access SmartFilter
This will open the Smartfilter pane, where you can apply/remove filters on the list or library.
SmartFilter Pane
The help article will be ready to view within the next few hours. I will update this post and comment here again with the link asap.
Without restating everything that is in the help article, I do want to note a few things about this feature:
- The SmartFilter pane shown above fully integrates with the current method of column header filtering within lists and libraries (Current Filtering info).
- The filters a user will see in the SmartFilter pane are specific to the list/lib that is being viewed
- (For example: In the screen shot above, the "People" column is a required field for the list and is always within the users view; thus it is shown in the SmartFilter Pane. Within this "People" filter, the 4 users shown are the most frequently appearing names in the "People" column of the list and therefore are displayed first in the panel)
Thank you for your feedback Marc, I look forward to getting your opinions on the feature when you get access! Let me know if there is any other info I can give or any questions that I could help answer.
Best,
Miceile
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This is a great feature. Now, how can I unpin a column from the Filter pane?
Really?? So, there is no way to unpin the columns from the smart filter pane??
- Miceile Barrett
Microsoft
Hello Sudeep Vemulapalli,
Currently, the feature automatically selects 4 default column types for the filters pane. We have added the request to un-pin these default columns to our backlog.
Thanks for the feedback.
Best,
Miceile
- Just appeared for me on my tenant. Useful addition. One thought would be to apply the SmartFilters to the pinned documents. If the filter does not apply how about unpinning until a relevant view is chosen?
Would you be able to post some additional screenshots?
- Miceile Barrett
Hello Ivan54,
The smartfilter feature is indeed in the planning stages of being able to update the metadata nav filtering experience. When I have precise dates, I will send updates!
Best,
Miceile
Unless I'm filtering and scanning wrong, I don't see anything in the roadmap for this, but I *think* I know what it is. I'll see if I can get some product group folks to add clarity. The announcement in the Admin Center sure doesn't give us much to go on!
M.
cc: AdamHarmetz
- Miceile Barrett
Hi MarcDAnderson,
I am Miceile, and am working on this feature and the rollout process. I apologize for the confusion and would like to clarify.
The goal of this feature is to help users discover relevant and useful content within their lists and document libraries. To access this feature, you will click the fliter icon located at the top right of your list or library.
Access SmartFilter
This will open the Smartfilter pane, where you can apply/remove filters on the list or library.
SmartFilter Pane
The help article will be ready to view within the next few hours. I will update this post and comment here again with the link asap.
Without restating everything that is in the help article, I do want to note a few things about this feature:
- The SmartFilter pane shown above fully integrates with the current method of column header filtering within lists and libraries (Current Filtering info).
- The filters a user will see in the SmartFilter pane are specific to the list/lib that is being viewed
- (For example: In the screen shot above, the "People" column is a required field for the list and is always within the users view; thus it is shown in the SmartFilter Pane. Within this "People" filter, the 4 users shown are the most frequently appearing names in the "People" column of the list and therefore are displayed first in the panel)
Thank you for your feedback Marc, I look forward to getting your opinions on the feature when you get access! Let me know if there is any other info I can give or any questions that I could help answer.
Best,
Miceile
any updates on this rollout?
We don't have it yet in our first release tenant.
- TomResing
MarcDAnderson, thanks for calling this out. I'm working on a help article that should put some more light on this. I thought this feature had been mentioned at ignite, maybe in a session by Kerem Yuceturk or Chris McNulty. It adds a new icon next to the info icon for lists and libraries and slides out an interactive pane, similar to the info pane. Where the info pane presents on item's metadata and allows interactive editing, the smart filter pane aggregates metadata from the current view. It allows interactive filtering of the list of items showing in the view.
Doing a presentation at Ignite is not a substitute for proper documentation. A few thousand people may have a seen a presentation, and the number of O365 Admins is many times more than that. It is imprerative that MS slow down the release of new features until the supporting documentation and adminisistrative controls are ready.
It is very difficult to explain how things work to my (and your) paying customers when I don't have anything reliable to read.
