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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 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.
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.