Forum Discussion
Behavior change to look up fields in SharePoint list quick edit view
I have just started my working week to find that when trying to manually type in a value in a lookup field won't work anymore while in quick edit view. It is now forcing me to click with the mouse to bring up the list, to then scroll and select. This is very painful compared with being able to type in the first three to four characters and then select what I want without having to use the mouse.
Is this a glitch with a recent update since the end of October, or a deliberate change?
As it stands, this means that I have to manually scroll through a list of over 800 items on a number of fields as they are linked to other SharePoint lists. I don't think it is as much of an issue for drop-downs that have only 3-4 options in them, but this is not workable for Lookup columns that are referring to lots of data on other lists.
I have tried three different browsers (Chrome, Mozilla and IE) with all three exhibiting the same behavior.
- Is anyone else experiencing this? Surely others are using lookup fields that link multiple SharePoint lists. I would really like to know if this is a bug that needs fixing, or if developers for SharePoint have decided that this is how lookup fields are going to work....Is there a place I should go to find info on latest updates, or is there a setting that I need to adjust? I can't seem to find anything to help at this stage. Any help or info would be appreciated.
LabDude09 - yes we started noticing this issues this week as well for both choice and lookup columns in SPO. Any resolution or workaround?
Greg Gieseke Just in case you haven't been keeping an eye on this discussion anymore, I have accidentally stumbled on a workaround. You can enter data as per normal (prior to the change a few weeks ago) by using classic experience. See my last reply for more info, but here is a screen shot to show what is happening with classic experience, that was happening while in Modern view;
