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Sharepoint clears filter when I open a pdf
Alternatively, when the filter is enabled in the document library, you can instead right click on the file to open in app or browser. This way the filtered list remains open.
Greenllama We are getting the same behavior in our organization. We haven't found a fix.
We have worked around it, either by right clicking the PDF and opening it in the browser that way. Doing it this way doesn't clear the filter since the document is opened in a new tab.
The other workaround we found is selecting a view, copying the URL of that view and accessing the view through the URL. When doing this, it seems to fix the issue for awhile. In case it starts redoing the same thing, just reuse the link and it'll work for another while.
Pretty annoying workarounds, but that's all we've managed to find so far.