SharePoint List Filter to narrow a folder structure

Hello,
The company I work for has a document library containing folders for each of their hundreds of clients. The current process now is to load all of the folders in alphabetical order in order so that the users can scroll through and find the correct client
relatively quickly. This takes longer than it should considering how many folders need to load.
I was trying to utilize the SharePoint List Filter to pull the Title column so the users could filter based on the name and we wouldn't need to pull all of the data each time the library was opened, but it seems that the title and name columns don't hold
their connection to the list. Each time I attempt to set the connections and then use the filter, I get the "This filter is not connected" error.
Is it possible to use this web part in this manner (or is there another web part that will work) or should I suggest moving to meta data instead of a folder structure if they want speed of use?
Thank you in advance!

Hi,
Based on your description, my understanding is that you want to you want filter the document library by the title column so that the users could filter based on the name and don’t need to pull all of the data each time the library was opened.
Refer to the following steps:
Open your document library-> choose Export to Excel->in excel, click insert PivotTable,
create a pivot table in Excel -> use Report filters
To filter the title column->save it and upload it to a document library
Then create a new page in SharePoint and add the Excel Web Access web part and configure it to display your workbook, (or you can add the Excel Web Access web part in your document library and configure it to display your workbook) Now
you can filter the document library by the title column.
Here is a link about how to Create a pivot table in Excel 2010:
http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/pivottbls/create2010.php
Here is a link about how to use Report filters:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2010/20.5
Besides, you can refer to the following blog:
http://consulting.risualblogs.com/blog/2014/09/10/filtering-excel-webparts-in-sharepoint-using-query-string-parameters/
Best Regards,
Lisa Chen

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Off hand there's only one thing I can think of that *might* work. if it doesn't then you're down to using multiple sharepoints on the server, with users mounting both disks simultaneously (which can be automated, for what it's worth).
The one thing to try is to statically mount the second RAID at the appropriate location so that, as far as the OS is concerned, it looks like just another directory even though it's on a different disk. You'd do this by editing /etc/fstab and adding a line like
UUID=AABBCCDD-79F7-33FF-BE85-41DFABE2E2BA /path/to/mount hfs rw
to /etc/fstab (this file may not currently exist, so just create it as root).
The first field is the UUID of the drive (which you can get via diskutil info)
The second field is the path where you want this drive to appear in the filesystem - i.e. somewhere in the path of your sharepoint. There must be an existing (empty) directory at this path when the disk mounts.
The third field identifies the disk as HFS
The fourth field marks the disk as read-write
Now when the system boots it should locate this disk and mount it on top of the existing RAID volume. If you cd to your sharepoint you should see the existing drive and if you cd from there into your mounted directory you should be looking at your new RAID.
Now, this all works fine (or, at least, should do) from a standard OS standpoint. The big question is whether the AFP and SMB daemons honor and support this kind of setup... there's one way to try, of course...
Now for testing purposes you could mount it at a dummy directory, just to see whether it's available to network clients. If it is then your next step would be to clone the data from the directory onto the new drive, then edit the fstab to mount the disk at the appropriate location.
Note also that the entire volume will replace the directory you mount over - that means you can't replace two (or more) directories with one volume, but you can, of course, partition or setup your RAID into multiple volumes and mount each individual volume over a specific directory.

How do I use Active Sync to view SharePoint Lists (Contacts and Calendars) on a Mobile Phone?

We are attempting to use SharePoint 2010 in combination with Exchange 2010 to implement shared calendars and contact lists throughout our organization. We are able to connect the lists to Outlook 2010, but have been unsuccessful in viewing
the calendars and contact lists from our mobile phones. How do we use Active Sync to view SharePoint Lists (Contacts and Calendars) on a Mobile Phone?
In trying to answer this question, we have come across a few different possibilities, all of them falling just short of a long term solution for us. After doing research, we found that Active Sync will only show the default folders of the account. To
solve this, we downloaded an Add-In for Outlook (CodeTwo FolderSync) to synchronize folders and synchronized our SharePoint list with a new Contact list in the default folder. The issue we came across with this method is that the Add-In we are using
is not capable of automatic synchronization. There is a button and it must be clicked after every update is made, which is not ideal for our solution. We then went to the company (CodeTwo) and found server side software (Exchange Sync) that they
offer which will automatically synchronize the folders. After installing that on the Exchange Server, we now are running into the issue of not being able to locate the SharePoint lists on the Exchange Server.
Does anyone happen to know how we can get to the SharePoint lists from the Exchange Server? Has anyone else been able to use shared contacts lists and calendars from SharePoint on their mobile phones using Active Sync? If so, are we in the right
direction with what we have found so far?
Thanks,
Brad

You cannot use ActiveSync for that, but there are SharePoint clients for the iPhone. Windows Mobile 7 natively supports SharePoint with SharePoint Workspace Mobile, part of Microsoft Office Mobile. Android and BlackBerry might also have some apps.
Use Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Mobile
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/office/use-office-sharepoint-workspace-mobile.aspx
iPhone SharePoint Apps Shootout
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/iPhone/iPhoneSharePointApps.aspx
Comparing SharePoint iPhone Apps
http://blog.praecipio.com/2010/11/02/comparing-sharepoint-iphone-apps/
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