Different Documents in Different Views in the Same Library

Question

I'm fairly new to Sharepoint, and am developing an internal site for my department. I'm hoping to use one Library for a general theme of documents around past performance, for example. I have figured out how to create a particular view for these documents and added columns to sort by assigned meta data. I then created a different view for capacity statements, which are related but not the same. However, all of the documents that I uploaded for the first view (Past Performance) are now showing up in both views. Can I restrict which documents appear in which views, or will I need to create a separate library?

Answer 1

You can use filters to restrict documents in each view. Suppose you add a choice column named "Document Type" and keep the choice values as "Performance Documents" and "Capacity Statements". When a document is added to the library either of these values can be selected. Now, you need to create two views and specify the filter on "Document Type"