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I have a SP list with a choices option that can contain multiple selections; legislation - Act; legislation - Regulation; case law - court; case law - administrative; article; privilege; governance etc. When I want to filter by legislation (act and reg, or just one or the other) I can't if there is another choice selected; it shows me all the choices that have been grouped, so one filter could be Governance; legislation - act; evidence and another option is governance; legislation - act
So I can't select just legislation - act to see all the Acts without selecting the instances where there are more than one choice selected. Any thoughts as to why, and how to fix? I thought all my topics should be listed as they are when I choose them, and I can select one to filter.
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Hello - hand selected topics do not group in the same way as the CoPilot assigned topics when filtering. And yes, the Settings are as you list above.
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Hi Marnie,
Thank you for your update.
If I understand correctly what you have described, that means the Copilot-assigned values are being stored or serialized differently from manually selected values. A correctly stored multi-choice value behaves conceptually like an array, for example:
[
"Governance",
"Legislation - Act",
"Evidence"
]
However, the Copilot-assigned version may return a combined value like Governance; Legislation - Act; Evidence. It can still display as several topic pills, but the filtering/indexing layer may see the combination as a distinct value.
That said, I recommend you should not let Copilot write directly to the multi-select Topics column. Instead, have Copilot place its recommendations in a separate field like "Suggested Topics", then manually select the approved values in the actual Topics choice column. This ensures each topic is stored separately and remains individually filterable.
Thank you - I was trying to decide how to make this work, and I think your suggestion is the best one - and beware to others who have this happen! :) Thank you for your help!!
You're welcome Marnie.
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Hi Marnie,
In this case, for a quick workaround, please try with this browser-side fix to narrow down the situation:
In the meantime, I will try to reproduce the behavior on my testing environment to see if I can gather more insights about this unexpected behavior.
Should you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please feel free to share them in the comment below. I'm very happy to help.
Thank you again for your patience and understanding. Hope to hear from you soon.
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Thank you, and no luck! I tried in Edge and Chrome (I usually use Chrome) after clearing the cache, cleared the cache in office / ms 365 and there is no JSON custom formatting. I did use CoPilot to tag the topics; I'm thinking that's the culprit?
Hi Marnie,
I personally don't think Copilot could be related here, but it's still a good point to test whether Copilot-created records behave differently. You can choose one affected list item > remove every value from the topics column > save and reopen > manually select Legislation - Act + Governance then save it again and check the filter.
In the meantime, you can also double-check the actual column type Settings > List settings > Columns > select your Topics column and ensure: