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Disable Comments in Lists
How can we disable Comments in a list? This is causing confusion for end-users of lists that already have a comments field.
ganeshsanap, looks like another Microsoft misstep...am I surprised? No. Am I irritated? Yep. Complete and total ignorance on their part and the list keeps growing and growing.
If only someone would stop driving such bells and whistles and start driving consistency (conformity, compliance and comprehension).
Currently it is not possible to disable comments at site or list level. But you can disable it at tenant level as given below:
You can disable comments in SharePoint online lists using PowerShell. Use below command:
Set-SPOTenant -CommentsOnListItemsDisabled $trueMicrosoft documentation: Set-SPOTenant
Note: You must be a SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator in your tenant to disable this feature using PowerShell.
Answer to your 2nd question: List comments are stored with the list schema and not against individual list items.
Additional References:
- How to Enable/Disable the commenting in SharePoint Online/Microsoft Lists
- SharePoint Online: All you need to know about Commenting in Lists
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ganeshsanap, looks like another Microsoft misstep...am I surprised? No. Am I irritated? Yep. Complete and total ignorance on their part and the list keeps growing and growing.
If only someone would stop driving such bells and whistles and start driving consistency (conformity, compliance and comprehension).
- Completely agree Lance. Another half-arsed, poorly thought out implementation. The only silver lining is that at least this time there is an off switch, unlike some other instances where we were unable to disable the functionality.
Hi, you can do it but only Tenant wide and not for specific sites:
#To disable it run this command Connect-SPOService -Url https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com/ Set-SPOTenant -CommentsOnListItemsDisabled $true #To enable this run this command Connect-SPOService -Url https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com/ Set-SPOTenant -CommentsOnListItemsDisabled $trueAFAIK there is not a way to disable list comments
jcgonzalezmartin
any idea where the comments are stored? from a business standpoint, some of my lists are synced with other business systems and the comments will need to be captured.
