As your usage of the Soonr service grows you might find that the amount of information that you are working with may get a little daunting. Have you ever had to juggle large teams of people or several projects at once? What if you are looking for that one file in a folder but there’s hundreds of files and you don’t recall the exact name? Or maybe you just have a lot of people named Peter in your company!
Any of these issues can be made much easier using Filters. At the top of the page is an input field for Filters. Working in real time, a Filter will bring the things you are looking for into focus by filtering out the things that do not match.
Type in Filter edit field for real-time updates
If you have many folders in your backup set or even several computers and their various folders, the Filter will quickly display only the ones you are looking for.
Just start typing some word or part of a word and your view will update to show you exactly what you were looking for. The more you type, the better the focus.
Filters appear in four (4) places in Soonr.
- Computers View – show only the folders that contain the letters you type.
- Projects View – turn a hundred projects into a target few with a few keystrokes.
- Team – find just the right guy named Peter.
- Folder – when looking at a folder, the filter will pick out just the right file for you.
Filters are so powerful because they work across pages of information. Let’s take a look at a real world example. Our company has a lot of people named Peter. Our company is spread across the USA and Europe, so it is a little surprising that it’s such a common name. But I digress… So I want to see what I am working on with a particular Peter. I can use the Filter to make this easy.
An abundance of people named Peter in our company
In the example above, the Filter has grouped all 8 people named Peter at our company from the pages of all team members. From here I can quickly click on the correct person and find the exact project that I am working on with them.
Unlike Search which only works on files and must be executed after you type your search words, the Filter can assist you outside of files and also works in realtime. Try it a few times and I think you’ll find it to be an indispensible feature to bring files into focus.
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