January 2019 SharePoint Modernization News

Chris McNulty  Thank you for this awesome update! Everything sounds really great, and I must say I'm a big fan of your including a specific month for rollout. That makes it much easier to know when to watch for changes! When I read "soon," I think Microsoft could mean a month or a year. :)

Any chance Microsoft is working on further improving modern in these areas?

1. How multiple lines of text fields are displayed when filling out list forms? We have had people lose data because of the clunky UI for this. They have to click a separate edit icon to fill in text in that field, then the save button isn't obvious, and they exit out and see they lost all of their notes. In classic, it's perfect. No confusion, all data saved, no extra pop up windows and menus. Any hope for that experience in modern? This is one of the main reasons I force lists to open in classic.

2. How multiple lines of text fields are displayed in views? We have lots of complaints about this as well. You can see a couple lines of text and then it grays out, so you can read all of the data. In classic, you can read all the data in a default view. And we often use "newsletter" views to more beautifully display lists that have sizeable content in MLT fields. I would kill for a newsletter view in modern!

3. Batch editing? I was really excited when this option was rolled out with modern. I thought it was so cool that I could click on a few items and batch edit them in the details pane. But I quickly noticed a flaw- data I was NOT editing was getting wiped out. Feel free to reach out to me if you are not aware of this and need details, and I can share specifics. But needless to say, I stopped using the batch editing and went back to datasheet after I realized I was wiping data.

Thanks so much! I'm excited about all the changes and improvements you and your team continuing providing us!