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James-Brennan
Jun 19, 2018Brass Contributor
Unable to see documents when searching by folders in Modern Document Libraries
Hi everyone, I am seeing some odd behaviour with modern document libraries when you try to search for content stored in folders. Lets say you have the following structure in a document library: ...
KoprowskiT
Jun 19, 2018MVP
Hi,
I had this case in few clients. Last two-three times we simply eliminated all folders. From that point, we have no folders in the library at all (and the client really don't need it) as well we, and the client is happy with this. It was necessary for some small adjustments to the user's behavior, but we solved this few weeks later.
Tobias
- James-BrennanJun 20, 2018Brass Contributor
Thanks KoprowskiT, using metadata does work when searching but we have various systems that output data as a combination of folders and files and we aren't in a position to change that yet (we are trying though!).
Its a shame as users have used the old classic view and are experienced the way this used to work so therefore end up questioning it.