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anneoday
Mar 06, 2018Iron Contributor
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...
- DeletedMar 06, 2018Ideally, 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.
Martin-Coupal
Apr 22, 2018Steel Contributor
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.
Rob Ellis
Jun 21, 2018Bronze Contributor
I've got a similar issue with one customer, where they edit a list item - changing 2 values, but the item is actually updated twice - so a SharePoint Designer workflow runs twice, resulting in a duplicate email notification. They only noticed it when they moved from Classic to Modern.
- Martin-CoupalJun 21, 2018Steel Contributor
Hi Rob, you are referring updating metadata using the information panel (not the Edit All form) where each field update generate a save? Yes, this is a nonsense especially for workflow/flow and also versioning (it generates new versions on each column that is saved). They should only provide the edit form (Edit All) option… But like @Anne O'Day says, when you edit with the edit form (or newform) , you need to be carefull not clicking outside the form or you will loose your updates (form will close).
Martin.
- anneodayJun 21, 2018Iron Contributor
Rob Ellis wrote:
I've got a similar issue with one customer, where they edit a list item - changing 2 values, but the item is actually updated twice - so a SharePoint Designer workflow runs twice, resulting in a duplicate email notification. They only noticed it when they moved from Classic to Modern.I think I've heard of that ... does using the "edit all" button help? It opens all the fields at once, still in the modern experience but instead of doing cell by cell updates, it behaves more like the classic form.
- GeertLaeremansJan 14, 2020Copper Contributor
This issue is still going on I believe since I experience it since today that when opening the editor and touching a field to change it's value, two other colons loose their data. Funny it are always the same two colons loosing data and it are both Choice fields.
When I open the editor and immediately select edit all this is not happening.
Is there already a work around for this? It is quiet hard to make all contributors to the list use this solution with the edit all option, especially when they are only viewing the data and touching a field without purpose to change it.
- anneodayJun 21, 2018Iron Contributor
Glad to hear it! I'm assuming this "edit all" is still considered the modern experience because it looks like it visually and there's still a "return to classic" in lower left. FYI that you can get to it directly with the same URL build as older versions of SharePoint, like this:
https://tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/Lists/mylist/EditForm.aspx?ID=10
(I like to build a view that includes the ID column, export it, then build a hyperlink column so that I can filter/sort my data very quickly and go in for single item edits much faster than with the SharePoint GUI.)