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Are Microsoft working on a new (modern) Contact List?
Even with the new Sharepoint Online sites rolled out, when i add a Contact List, it turns to the old version. Are Microsoft working on a new (modern) Contact List? or we are supposed to develop by our own?
Take a look on the roadmap: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=31064
The following list templates now have modern UI support: Issue Tracking, Contacts, Custom List in Datasheet View New and existing lists created using one of these templates will now appear in modern UI by default. Additionally, the native UI now supports multi-line text fields with the "Append Changes to Existing Text" setting enabled. Lists that contain this field type will no longer fall back to classic mode to accommodate these fields
Although I do have the switcher in the lower left corner to "close the classic experience" on contact list, it doesn't work for me in modern layout at all. I get a big error icon in the middle and the list just doesn't load in Modern for me. It's customised a bit in terms of columns, but nothing beyond the out-of-the-box standard types there so I doubt it's the reason.
Is yours actually working?
- Talked too soon!!! Seing the modern Contact list in my test tenant and it's working well
I don't have any insider information, but there is a huge SharePoint Virtual Summit in May where perhaps they might unveil new modern list capabilities: https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/21/announcing-the-sharepoint-virtual-summit/
I'm personally looking forward to tuning in!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far nothing on this topic from the Summit. I'm really interested to see if this specific kind of list has "a future" in the new modernized world - the 2-way Outlook connector specifically. We want to move from using Exchange public folders as a host of our contacts database to Sharepoint list and build on top of it, while retaining the view and edit options of the Outlook environment. I would really appreciate a word on whether this functionality is meant to be supported going forward.
- unfortunately nothing new regard existing list templates and if they are being modernised.
- This is something we don't currently know....the fact is that Microsoft has only modernized custom list...any of the other ones (Contacts, Tasks, Calendar, Issues, ...) are not modernized yet
