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Brian Knutson
Oct 05, 2017Brass Contributor
Modern Lists doesnt display all text on modern pages
I noticed with the classic style of sharepoint you can display single or multiple lines of text in a list on a classic style page and it will show all of the text. In the New Modern Lists, Single or M...
- Oct 05, 2017Yeap, I have seen this also and to me is a bug in the modern list visualization
Oct 05, 2017
Ah ok, I'm getting the same behaviour now. The single line of text is at least properly truncated and endding on ...
The multicolumn is just being chopped.
Oct 05, 2017
Yeap, I have seen this also and to me is a bug in the modern list visualization
- Brian KnutsonOct 10, 2017Brass ContributorI hope they fix it. I know its beta so my post is a little pre-mature. I just figured since they are adding more features to SP like twitter, maybe they can update the list first. I switch to just text for displaying info but isnt a long term solution.
- André NesheimMay 04, 2018Copper Contributor
Found a bug that seems to fix it. Change column to singel line of text, add formating
{"elmType": "div","txtContent": "@currentField","style": {"padding": "4px"}}and change back to multiple line of text- simonr2wDec 03, 2021Copper Contributor
André Nesheim Thank you for the suggestion, your method worked well for me.
However, I did run in to issues when entries in the column exceed 255 characters. Since it is a multi line column, it allows user to enter more than 255 characters. However, when the word document is opening in the app, there is a yellow banner at the top that reads: REQUIRED PROPERTIES - to save to the server, correct the invalid or missing required properties.
There are no required properties in my library, and I found the invalid field was the one I had changed to single line of text and then back to multi line text. It seems Microsoft still thinks the character limit is 255, because when I reduced the filed to under 255, the error went away and I could save the document.
I found another solution on the page SharePoint Online Modern Experience Multi-Line Field Display - Microsoft Tech Community It uses JSON to add a scroll bar to the multi line of text field. I am going ot try that out.