Setting a custom view based on folder contents

Question

We are in the process of rebuilding our entire SharePoint site, using yes/no fields and custom views are going through each document library and setting a yes/no value on each document depending on if they are still active. We then have a second view to show only those documents that have a yes value.

This works great until a folder is involved, so my question:

Is is there a way we can create a view based on the contents of a folder, something like if folder contains active document?

Answer 1

SharePoint View are not able to only show folders contain "active" document. Here are workarounds you can try:

1. If you create a new view and select in the filter section.

   Content Type Equals Folder

   OR

   And then add the additional condition you wish to apply to the documents.

In this way all the folders will be displayed no matter it contains active document or not.

2. Edit the view to show all items without the folders You can find all required documents while the folder hierarchy will be lost.