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Is there ANY way at all to change the UX for SharePoint List Views?
What Microsoft has done to SharePoint Lists has been detrimental to our organization (to put it lightly). It's much harder for people not using the site to get around the list using the Views. I have to constantly consol people, like the owner of the company, who are yelling at me because they can't figure out how to use this interface. I myself who created and use this almost daily have a hard time navigating these views as well.
It makes no sense to have some views spread horizontally and others vertically. Most of the view names are cut off making them all appear to be the same. Our organization has over a dozen offices around the world and it appears SharePoint isn't even able to scale to that level.
Ideally, we could get rid of the views entirely and use some other SharePoint site menu for navigation.
Is it possible to use CSS on the page to (1) hide the Views and (2) create a dropdown menu next to Add New Item? While we're at it, let's also hide Forms, Automate, and Integrate for this page.
Orrrrr... I dunno - just thinking here... can I use the data in the SharePoint List to create an entirely differently page in SharePoint? I've got a list with thousands of entries (they're client projects) and about two dozen columns.
Couple of options. You can create links to views…create a page that has a set of links that go directly to a corresponding view. Rob is also correct that you could utilize SPFX to create a custom web part. If you want to go deep…check out SharePoint Embedded and use SharePoint as your backend and create your own totally customized front-end.
Out-of-the box it's not possible to change how the list and views are displayed or to use CSS. This might be possible with the SharePoint Framework SPFx but I am not familiar with that as we've not allowed it at my company (300+ offices worldwide, 70,000 staff). Personally I've not had any negative feedback from our staff about the new look, they just get to know where the views are. But I appreciate that if you are ending up with lots of views that start with the same letters then it can get confusing. The only out-of-the-box way to deal with this is to rename the views.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
