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:  

1. The SmartFilter pane shown above fully integrates with the current method of column header filtering within lists and libraries (Current Filtering info).
2. 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