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Text Search Deprecated - what is its replacement?
All ( Anonymous pmurz mlucking motoray ),
MS support just contacted me and confirmed that the Text Filter visual will NOT be deprecated in response to community requests. The deprecation warning will go away within a week.
EDIT: It looks like they have pulled it from AppSource and the warning has returned. I have reopened my case and reached out to the product team for an update.
As others have said, the Standard Slicer is NOT a suitable alternative. It is replacing an elegant solution with a clunky work around.
Some examples:
- I want to pull up a graph for a certain part number prefix. There are 200 parts with that prefix. I'm suppose to use the search in the Slicer and manually select all 200 boxes?
- In theory, this shouln't happen much.. but I have seen it much. Inevitably at some point, when using multiple filters, a user ends up with boxes checked in the Standard Filter that don't show up becuase they've gotten lost in the longer list. It is not immediately apparent that something is filtered, and users get frustrated wondering why things aren't showing up. With the Text Slicer, this happens much less often because they see their entry up there.
- I use the Text Slicer because it uses minimal real-estate... 1 line. I will have to completely redesign numerous pages to fit a Standard Slicer because you need enough room for the checkboxes.
Finally, I have not seen a satisfactory WHY from MICROSOFT. I have seen some here say it is because the functionality is in the Standard Slicer. Unless there is going to be substantial improvement in the Standard Slicer to accomodate what the Text Slicer already provides, this is not a valid answer.
Anonymous
I agree that the slicer option isn't the same. I have the same issue with selecting certain part numbers but I use the Filter Panel and add the slicer/filter there. Then you can set those to "advanced filtering" and it gives you a number of ways to filter, including "starts with". Once you put something in there and apply the filter, it will filter the visual on the page to those products vs having to select each one manually if you use the slicer on the page.
Oh... yeah... now that's intuitive for users!!! NOT!!!
Again, replacing a simple, elegant solution with an inferior one.