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I am using a custom list with standard OOB AllItems.aspx view using the modern experience. (NOT a web-part, NOT the classic experience)

When I filter using 

.../AllItems.aspx?FilterField1=MyTextColumn&FilterValue1=MyVal

it works fine and I see only rows containing MyVal.

When I filter using 

.../AllItems.aspx?FilterName=MyTextColumn&FilterMultiValue=MyVal

or

.../AllItems.aspx?FilterName=MyTextColumn&FilterMultiValue=MyVal;YourVal

The list view acts as if no filtering was applied - all rows are displayed.

Ultimately the column I want to select on is "Single Line of Text" but I have gotten the same results using "Choice" and "Person or Group" and "Yes/No" as well. They work fine with FilterField1/FilterValue and they ignore FilterName/FilterMultiValue.

  • Is there some special configuration I have to do for SPO to allow for filtering by multi-values?
  • Is this a feature that works only with list web-parts and not with standard list views?
  • Is this a feature that is no longer supported? (Most of the references I've read are from 2010-2014)...
  • Am I mistaken in my understanding of how this should work? Should I be able to directly replace FilterField1/FilterValue1 with FilterName/FilterMultiValue and have it work identically?

I have checked about 20 times to make sure I have correct case and spelling on FilterName/FilterMultiValue and I have even tried (as I've seen on a couple sites) FilterField1/FilterMultiValue1 and various other permutations.

Perhaps unrelated but FilterOpX is being ignored as well. I saw several comments that this was a difficult-to-reproduce problem that occurred on some sites/lists and not on others...

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  • What is the data type of your Column/field? – Ganesh Sanap Aug 19 '19 at 13:38
  • Ultimately I want to apply it to a "Single Line of Text". When that didn't work I tried it on some other types (most recent a "People") and get the same result where FilterField1 works but FilterName is ignored. – Peter Bowers Aug 19 '19 at 13:51
  • Added my answer below. I can't mark it as the right answer because stackexchange doesn't trust me on the sharepoint site, but you can still view it. – Peter Bowers Aug 19 '19 at 15:38
  • If someone comes up with a solution how to use FilterMultiValue (with * as wildcard) I'm still very interested. – Peter Bowers Aug 19 '19 at 17:34
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So apparently the

useFiltersInViewXml=1

query parameter is a thing. Maybe just in SPO or maybe just in Modern Experience. I'm finding ZIP in terms of documentation from M$, but when I add that into my query:

.../AllItems.aspx?FilterName=MyTextColumn&FilterMultiValue=MyVal;YourVal&useFiltersInViewXml=1

then all of a sudden the world is my oyster...

Hope this helps someone else. If someone sees someplace where this is decently documented please comment below.

---EDIT---

My oyster ended up without a pearl. It works beautifully at first but some random number of seconds after that SPO does a reload via AJAX which ignores the filters I have specified.

TRY AGAIN:

This time I went into the unfiltered view, filtered by the columns I'm interested in, and reverse engineered the resulting URL. I end up with a query that looks like this:

.../AllItems.aspx?FilterFields1=MyTextColumn&FilterValues1=MyVal%3B%23YourVal&FilterTypes1=Text

Note that I have changed the URL as follows:

  • FilterFields1 instead of FilterName
  • FilterValues1 instead of FilterMultiValue
  • separating my multi-values with %3B%23 (which is ;# encoded)
  • added the FilterTypes1=Text query parameter for this "Single Line of Text" column type
  • no longer using useFiltersInViewXml=1

Some "Gotchas" to be aware of:

  • If your dynamic query sometimes allows multi-values and other times has only a single value you must change your URL (FilterField1 and FilterValue1 without the s)
  • FilterTypes1=Text will change based on column type - manually filter and examine the resulting URL to figure out what you need
  • While FilterName/FilterMultiValue supported (or was supposed to support) * as a wildcard, this is not supported here with this syntax
  • I'm testing this only on Sharepoint Online as of Aug-2019 - YMMV elsewhere
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You need to use the Filter in below format:

.../AllItems.aspx?FilterFields1=MyTextColumn-FilterValues1=MyVal;#YourVal

Note ;# as a separator between two values.

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  • As soon as I put myval;#yourval in the URL then it redirects to a simple AllItems.aspx URL without any query parameters at all. In other words, it redirects to a URL without the ? or the & or any of those Filternnn values. I am familiar with using ";#" as a separator between the ID and the label in a person or metadata field; if that is what you were attempting to do that is NOT what my question is about. – Peter Bowers Aug 19 '19 at 14:22

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