As always, I don’t know where to report issues with Office 365. So here I am carping in a public channel in the hopes that the right person sees it. This also may happen with SharePoint 2013 on premises, but I can’t recall.
When I use a refiner that is based on a Lookup column, I’ll often see something like the attached image. As you can see, there are two clients listed: Anchor Glass and 29. Anchor Glass is the title of the item in the Clients list with the ID of 29, but it still doesn’t make sense (especially to those poor users). It’s as if the indexer isn’t smart enough to handle Lookup columns properly – but only some of the time.
This happens on multiple tenants, with different Lookup columns to different lists, but not consistently, or in any pattern I’ve been able to discern. Generally it’s the Title column we’re looking up into. Using a Lookup column into a list is almost always preferable to using Managed Metadata (IMO) because we can store additional data about the values in the list. For instance, in the Clients list above, we have the client contact info, who works with the client, when we started working with them, what the billings are, etc. Managed Metadata is worthless for that.
But the bug.
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to work around it?
by Marc D Anderson via Marc D Anderson's Blog
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