Hi team,
I’d like to share a suggestion for improving pinned filters in Fibery.
Current behavior
Right now, pinned filters work well for quick access, but they all follow the same behavior. When multiple filters are pinned, users can activate several of them at the same time, which is useful in many cases, but it does not work as well when those filters represent different views of the same data.
In some workflows, pinned filters end up being used almost like a lightweight way to navigate between different contexts. In those cases, allowing several of them to stay active at once can create unnecessary or less clear combinations.
Suggested improvement
My suggestion is to add a second behavior type for pinned filters: in addition to regular pinned filters, there could also be exclusive pinned filters.
The logic would be simple:
- Regular pinned filters would keep working as they do today and could still be combined with other filters.
- Exclusive pinned filters could still coexist with regular filters, but only one exclusive pinned filter could be active at a time.
- When a user selects an exclusive pinned filter, any other active exclusive pinned filter would be automatically unchecked.
This would create a simple way to switch between predefined views using a structure the product already has, without needing to build a full tab system.
This option could appear in the same settings area where there is already an option that lets users change pinned filter values. In other words, when opening the configuration for a pinned item, this could appear there as another simple setting.
Another important detail is that this option should be disabled by default, so it would not change the current behavior of any existing filter or group.
Also, this should not apply only to individual filters, but also to pinned filter groups. In other words, any pinned item could have this exclusivity setting.
A simple name for this option could be Exclusive selection.
Example scenario
For example, a user could have these pinned items:
- In Progress → exclusive
- Approved → exclusive
- Completed → exclusive
- High Priority → regular
- Assigned to Me → regular
In this case, the user could switch between In Progress, Approved, and Completed as different status views, while still combining any of them with regular filters like High Priority and Assigned to Me.
Thanks for considering this suggestion.