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Modern List Item UI Causes Data Loss
I feel like I may be missing something simple but I'm about to tear my hair out because I keep running into this and it is so irritating!
I'm working in SharePoint Online using the modern exper...
Ideally, if it was possible. An event that when that screen closes you get a prompt to save your changes, or at least some way when you click new again the previous box showed back up where you left off.
I’ve experienced the same issue while doing a final testing of a solution with my customer end users. 3 of them lost their data. I felt very unprofessional and I could not beleive a major issue like this has not been captured by Microsoft. Also with the edit screen you get when clicking on the info icon, each field being updated will generate a new version. This is really bad with documents under regulation like ISO.
The best workaround I've found is to go back to classic mode, but I have a feeling that's not going to be allowed for much longer.
I've tested again PowerApps and it caches the info (in my first test I think I've concluded to fast and only notice the panel was closing) if we click outside the panel. So using PowerApps custom forms is a potential solution.
Note: It caches info for new and edit forms.
Martin.
- It'll be around for years. They will iron this out before classic goes away.
Another alternative could be just fire up powerapp form for the list and have that input the data.- If modern experience could support the "Launch in a dialog" advanced option where if enabled, this would behave as it is right now, and if not, it would redirect to the full window form... I can't understand why this would be so hard to implement... I see this issue as a major failure for the modern experience (with the document sets still not supported in modern UI). Switching to classic make you loose some very useful features... This is a nightmare for a consultant trying to provide guidance to his customers... I hope Chris McNulty could give us some feedback on this issue.
- Yeah I kind of agree, should be something easy to fix that needs some quick fixin. Specially how easy it is to click off of that on accident, and if you have a big form, that could be upsetting.
- I've tried with PowerApps (replace the new/edit form) and it is the same issue. PowerApps launch in the same panel on the right. If you click outside, everything goes away.... It would be so easy to fix if I could override the New action in the list ribbon to call newform.aspx (In my case it is a list). This is launching in it's own full window using modern experience. Same thing if I could override the Open & Edit items from the EditControlBlock menu to call editform.aspx ?ID=... . I don't want to add custom actions in the EditControlBlock and CommandUI.Ribbon because it will be confusing for the end users having additional actions to create or edit items.
Any idea if we can change the calls of New, Open, Edit? From what I can see I can only add new custom action with PnP (not override). Can it be the with the Framework?
Thanks,
Martin.- Yeah your right I forgot about that, been awhile since I loaded it up.
