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John Wynne
Silver Contributor
Aug 24, 2018

Documents now offers a Compact List view

Documents now offers a Compact List view. If it has been there before I haven't noticed it.

 

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  • JWLehman's avatar
    JWLehman
    Copper Contributor
    This will be going on year 3 that this unassuming feature has not been added as an option. Site owners can't be trusted with such a powerful option! 😉
  • Rienkipienk's avatar
    Rienkipienk
    Copper Contributor

    John Wynne Hi, I had also a look at this, and this worked for me:

    1. Set the view to the Compact view

    2. Save the view as.... and overwrite the same one.

     

    Refresh the page.

  • JWLehman's avatar
    JWLehman
    Copper Contributor

    John Wynne Really like the feature, but the list settings needs to have a toggle to default the behavior as needed.  The modern view has far too much white space...so much wasted screen real estate.

      • JWLehman's avatar
        JWLehman
        Copper Contributor

        Rienkipienk Thanks for response, but that "Save as" method doesn't hold for me as a user, or for the users who later visit the view.

  • kvyvey's avatar
    kvyvey
    Copper Contributor

    John Wynne 

    Hi , does anyone use this in the sharepoint app on tablets?

    I have this compact list view on my SharePoint online on Windows desktop but not in my SharePoint app on iPad for example.

     

     

  • Matt Coats's avatar
    Matt Coats
    Steel Contributor

    It popped up in our tenant no later than yesterday, not sure how long we've had it. Doesn't look like it's usable in the Document Library web part (yet).

     

    Is there any observable difference in this view other than taking up less space per row?

    • John Wynne's avatar
      John Wynne
      Silver Contributor
      Nothing more than you’ve observed Matt. I’m amazed, though, how much I’m still stumbling across in addition to all the formal comms we get!
      • CanadaOneStopShop's avatar
        CanadaOneStopShop
        Copper Contributor

        It's great that it has a compact view. Too bad this isn't the default. I can ask for it to compact view and I want this to be the norm for my entire site but as soon as I close it out and come back in it is all uncompacted again. Any idea of how I can make the page and if possible the entire site "compacted"

        Thx

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