Hi All Hopefully an easy question. On the SharePoint Online search results page (/_layouts/15/search.aspx) is it possible to have additional filters on the Files tab using Managed Metadata? If so, please could you point me in the right direction to configure this? Thanks Allan

We have numerous customers that require managed metadata filters in the Modern SharePoint experience and the lack of this functionality is very restrictive at present. Trying to get clients away from working with classic folders to structure content and instead tagging content is very difficult when you can't filter on the metadata tags that are applied...I understand that Microsoft has a focus on implementing a common search experience across all it's M365 products which makes a lot of sense but there is an obvious requirement for a large number of businesses to have the ability to filter content based on their company information architecture/ taxonomies.Microsoft should not be making the experience worse in key areas such as content tagging and filtering. I am also aware that there is an advanced PnP Modern Search WebPart solution on offer which is a great piece of work... but this requires that customers implement custom solutions on their tenants which then need to be maintained and managed and not all businesses wish to go down this route. Based on the speed of the Microsoft's Evergreen approach (Continuous Feature Development) I can understand that customers are less inclined to deploy custom solutions and would rather use standard features... It just a shame that these key features aren't available to support the filtering of labelled content.Microsoft it is time you provided this feature... Modern sites have been around for a long time now and so has the PnP Modern Search solution. Where is the "Out of the Box" solution for filtering search content?

Any update on when this Search customization will be available?ThanksGeir-Magnus Pettersen wrote:Hi! The customization functionality that @Naomi Moneypenny showed you on the virtual summit is not yet implemented by us on the search team. We know this functionality is important to you and we are currently in planning of implementing this functionality. Another thing we know is important is that customers want the same recognizable search experience across office 365, not different ones in each workload like office.com, sharepoint home and team / comm / hub sites. So we now have used the same modern search experience in all of these endpoints. We are continuing to work hard on this and we will also focus on providing customization functionality like the ones shown in the video to the modern search. We don't have an exact ETA for when this will be ready, but sadly not the coming weeks. What I can do is to notify you here as soon as we are able to start this work and keep you updated on the progress. Understand that this is missed, but interested in your opinions on the new modern search page and the progress on this so far.

I agree 100% Alan. What's the value in asking users to tag their content if you can't filter/refine on it? I've been out of the SharePoint game for a couple of years - but c'mon, this Modern search experience is digression. Why bother creating Content Types?

There sure is. The pnp webpart from github works. I wish the user interface experience was a bit better including spanning the width of the browser window.

Hi! The customization functionality that @Naomi Moneypenny showed you on the virtual summit is not yet implemented by us on the search team. We know this functionality is important to you and we are currently in planning of implementing this functionality. Another thing we know is important is that customers want the same recognizable search experience across office 365, not different ones in each workload like office.com, sharepoint home and team / comm / hub sites. So we now have used the same modern search experience in all of these endpoints. We are continuing to work hard on this and we will also focus on providing customization functionality like the ones shown in the video to the modern search. We don't have an exact ETA for when this will be ready, but sadly not the coming weeks. What I can do is to notify you here as soon as we are able to start this work and keep you updated on the progress. Understand that this is missed, but interested in your opinions on the new modern search page and the progress on this so far.

SharePoint Online Search Filters - Managed Metadata

Karen_Kennedy
Copper Contributor
Apr 16, 2020
Need to be able to filter search results in SharePoint Modern.
Benoit_Fournier
Steel Contributor
Jul 19, 2018
It was demoed at the SharePoint Conference. I was not able to see any update or roadmap item related to that.

Look at 1:08 https://mediastream.microsoft.com/events/2018/1805/SharepointSummit/

Maybe Naomi Moneypenny or Mark-Kashman have an update on that? I think Naomi said soon.

We need that feature and are rolling out an updated Intranet in the next few weeks.
- Geir-Magnus Pettersen
  Microsoft
  Jul 20, 2018
  Hi!
  
  The customization functionality that @Naomi Moneypenny showed you on the virtual summit is not yet implemented by us on the search team. We know this functionality is important to you and we are currently in planning of implementing this functionality.
  
  Another thing we know is important is that customers want the same recognizable search experience across office 365, not different ones in each workload like office.com, sharepoint home and team / comm / hub sites. So we now have used the same modern search experience in all of these endpoints. We are continuing to work hard on this and we will also focus on providing customization functionality like the ones shown in the video to the modern search. We don't have an exact ETA for when this will be ready, but sadly not the coming weeks.
  
  What I can do is to notify you here as soon as we are able to start this work and keep you updated on the progress.
  
  Understand that this is missed, but interested in your opinions on the new modern search page and the progress on this so far.
  - Yu Chen
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 14, 2020
    Geir-Magnus PettersenI saw in O365 Roadmap there's a Search feature (Featured ID: 34273)
    rolling out but it did not mention modern search with filters. Any update on the customization functionality displayed in virtual summit?
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Jun 27, 2018
I don't think you can add additional file types in Office365 like sharepoint server. Maybe you can try the spfx route to add custom refiners as mentioned in blog below.
http://thecollaborationcorner.com/2017/10/16/build-dynamic-sharepoint-search-experiences-with-refiners-and-paging-with-spfx-office-ui-fabric-and-pnp-js-library/
- Geir-Magnus Pettersen
  Microsoft
  Jun 29, 2018
  Hi!
  
  I am working on the modern search experience for sharepoint. Currently there is no way to customize the filters you see on the verticals of search.
  
  You wold like to add custom filters from managed meta data store? Are there other kind of filters you think are lacking in the modern search experience?

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