Please, I need someone's help. I have several lists in different sharepoint that worked as expected until a few days ago. Since then, when I try to edit an existing element in any list (I get the same result regardless I'm just a member or an admin), all the fields appear empty (as you can see in the following image), and if I click save they really update to blank. Yesterday I ask another member of one of these sharepoint to check if he also gets the same behaviour, but for him it works fine. Does anyone know what my problem could be? Thanks in advance.

Hi Marta, I found your first request here. I remember, that if I send a team into archive (which is possible in the Teams Admin Center), my lists and libraries in the Teams SharePoint Base are archived as well. Did somebody archive your Team (private Group) by accident??

Hi Marta, pls. check your regional settings, like language and currency settings in your M365 Account.Here attached 4 you to little films: first to check your permissons level in SharePoint( user15 is a Member, Me=Site Owner) and second film is about your regional settings. That includes keyboard and (!) currency settings. Maybe your Tenant was set only for English settings (reset after update?). Occasionally I have that issue, when I initialize a new Flow with Power Automate and currency Fields, then the flow settings are reset to english. Are you working with Power Automate Flows? That could be a reason.Please make sure your Account Settings (including the Office Apps!) are in Spanish. If you cannot change these settings, pls. write a ticket to your Teams Admin.

Try deleting cookies. For me it works

Hi Marta, some power automate ideas for you:if you are the creator of that List Flow or a Co-Creator / co-Owner, you can add an action to convert field contents, not fields. This goes: a) create a variable with number in it, initalize the variable with your SP Lists Field. then choose a new action called "Number formatting" (Zahlformatierung) and choose the variable to convert the field content into a certain currency.Or: Maybe the creator of that list did not select you as a User?If possible it is easier for me to help, as you give me a screenshot of that flow...

MartaGM the "user-friendly" format in Date/Time Columns can be changed into a user-understandable format. Pls. see my new "greatest hits" Date & Number Formatting blockbuster 🙂 if you want to review the settings on your flows and in happy end you will also see, that "user-friendly" does not correspond in a weird way with that new Date Control. Maybe this is the cause of your column trouble... Next idea: the regional settings could have something to do with the Tenant Settings. If your company changed the subscribing options, maybe they pay less but now the tenant is located to another country (?)... Another idea: If that Version Field in your list only accepts a Number, which deals with "." usually, but the "." is converted to a "," (Comma), it is a clear sign, that your list changed the regional settings for you. I know, this sucks. Pls. try inserting a Version "Number" with Commas instead of Dots. Have a good day

Blank fields when editing an existing list element

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BriHegewunsch
Copper Contributor
Mar 01, 2022
I had this same issue, and I discovered that the problem was that I had items grouped by date (I suspect the same issue occurs if you have any grouping on any column). As soon as I ungrouped the column, I found I could then click on individual items and see all the details. I hope this is helpful!
MartaGM
Copper Contributor
Dec 16, 2021
Hi to all,

I've noticed that without doing anything at all, my lists work perfectly now in teams and in chrome...

Anyone else?
- jsantosmoreno
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 16, 2021
  Hi.
  Yes, in my case (in all my company) my list works perfectly too without any action.
  Greetings.
  - Thomas_Lorge
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 16, 2021
    Good news, but bad news too
    
    then may be my change was just done at the same time the issue has been fixed
    but it means we may experience the same issue again next month when applying new patches...
- christop670
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 16, 2021
  currently looks good on edge too
pcarriere
Copper Contributor
Dec 02, 2021
Same situation for me, except that I'm not using Power Automate at all for my 3 SharePoint Lists. Can't wait for a resolution from Microsoft!
- Thomas_Lorge
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 15, 2021
  Hi Guys,
  
  after endless discussion with Microsoft support (asking to extact logs every 5 days...), I finally found a way to fix this display issue for my lists
  
  as explained above it was linked to the synchronization
  try to go to your list settings > advanced settings
  and then try to deactivate the authorization to download element of your list when disconnected
  sorry it's in French
  
  after moving this parameter to No, all our lists impacted by this issue were working (with just a ctrl+F5)
  
  Hope it will help !
  - Anatoly Mironov
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 19, 2021
    It started working for us as well. Microsoft Support says they did not do anything on their end.
jsantosmoreno
Copper Contributor
Nov 09, 2021
Hi all...
It seems to be solved and there was nothing wrong with us (our machines)... just a Sharepoint glitch.
Anyway, happy as hell...
- jsantosmoreno
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 23, 2021
  Some of my team members have begum with the **bleep** issue something like a week ago... and finally today the nightmare has begun in my computer.
  I'm quite desperate: a big project of SharePoint in my company is in danger of not being realised because of that.
  Hope Microsoft fixes it urgently...
  - Louis885
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 23, 2021
    The only solution i can think of is writing a flow with Power Automate Desktop that closes Teams and wipes the cache of Teams (deletes %appdata% content). You could link it to a button and add it the interface or something. Quite barbarian, but that's all I can think of lol. Unless we actually figure out what element in the cache is actually causing the bug.
- Louis885
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 10, 2021
  Started doing it today for me...
  - Thomas_Lorge
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 22, 2021
    Hello,
    i'm having exatcly the same issue.
    using also powerautomate to create item in my list
    
    i have faced it last month, after monthly Microsof tupdate
    and it came back to normal
    but it just came back today...
    
    any help would be appreciated
FredA26
Copper Contributor
Oct 29, 2021
Hello, I have the same problem, when I (and many of my users) edit existing list element the fields are blank on the sahrepoint form.
But i work fine when I run the browser in private mode !
- jsantosmoreno
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 29, 2021
  Hi... yes, It seems that the error is related to Sharepoint cookies, so in private mode you may not have the problem the same as if you delete the cookies ...
  Question: what is your language and region. It seems to be related to Spain and traditional Spanish.
  Regards.
  - FredA26
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 29, 2021
    Hi,
    my language and region are French
GermanGomez
Copper Contributor
Oct 21, 2021
Try deleting cookies. For me it works
- MartaGM
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 22, 2021
  thanks GermanGomez, it was a good idea but it didn't work in this particular case. Somewhere and somehow I have a mix language between Spanish an English, and I think that's the key to solve the problem.
Eva Vogel
Steel Contributor
Oct 21, 2021
Hi Marta, I found your first request here. I remember, that if I send a team into archive (which is possible in the Teams Admin Center), my lists and libraries in the Teams SharePoint Base are archived as well. Did somebody archive your Team (private Group) by accident??
- MartaGM
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 21, 2021
  Hi Eva. Thanks for answering me.
  
  I don't really understand what you are saying but I have the same problem in a Team where I'm the owner and the only member (is the one that I use to try things before updating the ones with other people), and I haven´t change anything there that I remember
  - MartaGM
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 21, 2021
    I have just realized one thing, eventhough all the fields seem to be blank when editing, only the ones with date format maintein their value when saving.
    
    I tried creating a new list with 2 columns (number and text) and it worked fine, then I add another column with date format and the same problem appeared.
    
    I really don't understand anything. Is any of this ringing a bell for you?
    
    Thanks again.
    
    best regards, Marta

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