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Behavior change to look up fields in SharePoint list quick edit view
Greg Gieseke- thanks for helping follow up on this. It is very disheartening to hear that this is their response....Could you please guide me as to where I can open my own ticket? I am thinking that if more people raise this directly, they may start to look into it, or perhaps acknowledge that something has changed.....
My only other thoughts, are whether a global setting has been changed by the administrator/owner of SharePoint account (I am not sure how all this works, but I would be surprised if the guys who oversee SharePoint for our company, would have bothered to alter any setting that would change something like this). I am still learning about permissions etc.
I'm really wishing I had kept some screen shots of me working with my lists so we had actual proof....
Lastly, it doesn't make sense to me, for the lookup columns to behave the way they currently do. Why would you want to have to scroll through hundreds of rows of data to make one selection. The whole idea of a lookup column, is to link the lists (like tables in a traditional database) which I would imagine in most cases, are not small lists. A drop down selection, I can understand, but not a look up column.
Just bumping this again to see if others have been experiencing the same issue. I unfortunately don't have any screen shots as proof that the behaviour has changed recently, but I have spent the last six months building lists and entering thousands of rows of data in, where I have been able to type it in and allow SharePoint to start displaying the closest match. I could then press the tab button to move to the next column/field.
Given look up columns are designed to link lists together, and the possibility of these lists growing is extremely high, why would you want to be forced to scroll through thousands of data points in a drop down list every time you need to select data for the list you are in?
- As an update to this, I have started work this morning following all my usual steps with opening my SharePoint Lists, but for some reason when I open lists that don't contain any JSON formatting, they open in classic experience?? I don't know why, but using the lists this way, enables the Autocomplete function to work again.....
So at the moment, as far as I can see, the issue I have been having is happening when editing a list in Modern view. While I prefer that I can continue using modern view over classic, at least I can now enter data efficiently. I would still say that this issue isn't resolved until it is possible for the Autocomplete function to work in Modern viewLabDude09I noticed this as well and have been waiting for Microsoft to address the autocomplete in the Modern view. Has there been any action or response from Microsoft regarding this? We also have lookup fields with hundreds of items and this continues to be an issue. To flip all of the lists to the classic experience will be a bit time consuming and frustrating for the average users on my team. I have been unable to find anything with a response from Microsoft on this particular issue. Thanks so much!
