Why doesn't OneDrive support metadata and custom views?
Does OneDrive not support metadata? Problem The only details I can see are as follows: Type, Modified, Added, Date created, Path Size. But my files have so much more metadata and categorizations. SharePoint file management is nice The experience in SharePoint is great; it has all of our files packed with useful metadata; at one organization I was even able to remove all folders and rely only on libraries and metadata, providing UI via web parts like the Highlighted Content, Feed, and Public Views. File duplicates across hundreds of people went from thousands to zero for the majority of the time. Time searching for files went down to mere seconds. Collaboration increased. File integrity improved. On other sites, we had a mixture of folders and metadata, but still those Public Views were invaluable for managing our department data. Onedrive seems to lose much of my file data! But moving over to OneDrive, it seems all that file storage functionality has been lost. Even existing file metadata seems to get lost during transfers. Devs seem to be throwing in some AI stuff, memories, but for some reason failing to listen to community feedback and add this basic functionality; even with complaints where Onedrive use resulted in lost and corrupted file metadata. Now they've announced the Next Generation of OneDrive but the topic doesn't seem to be addressed. I see requests and complaints on the internet going back years, including many over the past 12 months over on the feedback portal. Most of this feedback seems to go ignored though. Is there a reason why Microsoft hasn't allowed users to http://%20https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-managed-metadata-column-8fad9e35-a618-4400-b3c7-46f02785d27f?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us or to create custom views of our OneDrive libraries?
Why are file views in SharePoint different from file views in GA4?
In the downloaded report from Site Usage, a document in the popular content is showing that is has 4 unique viewers and 13 visits in the last 7 days. However, when I hover over the file name in the Document library the file is showing 99 views and 42 viewers. Is this difference because the Document library is showing all views since it was uploaded? When a report was created in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to see the views and users, the file had 283 views and 250 total users. The report was also showing different languages (see screenshot below). This PDF was not translated and is only in English, so I'm not sure why it's showing different languages? How does SharePoint and GA4 track views and users for documents? Why are the numbers so different?
