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Modern view for task lists and calendars?
Lars Prahl wrote:
MSFT does some good stuff, but they tend to take a very long time to do it, - and get left behind again and again :/
Yes, and sadly it is all these little missed that sometime make it so unpractical to use that people prefer to use something else like google calendar or even a piece of paper in a conference room. It sometime almost feels like buying a Ferrari car where the door has no hinges so would have to crawl in through the window. Sad. But let us just keep reminding them of these little thing so they fix them.
Navigate to List settings > Advanced settings > scroll to the bottom to List experience and select New experience.
Enjoy!
Marcus Anthony that doesn't solve the problem, as SharePoint is not able to render a Gantt Chart in the modern UI and the task list doesn't show subtasks. Both things why this thread was opened in the first place.
Yes, it is perfectly simple to set it to the new look, but when you do there are things that just don't work. Like for instance if you add a column to a task list to keep track of something like say "stakeholder" it stops working in the new versions, but it is fine in the old. We have some lists made that way in the old that does not work any more.
Problem is that if you do this on a task list, then you cannot open the item. Instead of opening the item in view or edit mode, it downloads a file. And it is useless, if you can't update your tasks.
Kristine Bjørkman Marcus Anthony
My experience after setting Events list to modern: Double click on item downloads the item, right click to Open or Edit will display correctly.
Not that this makes it any better, but at least we can use Json column formatting on Events list now w/out having to create custom list and mimic Events columns...not to mention calendar overlay and other calendar uses.
Any updates ? Thread seems to have run out. Or have things just moved ?
- Hmm, that is not what happens for me. I am able to view or edit items without any issue after switching the list to the new experience.
Are you able to show the timeline when the list is set to "New experience" under Advanced Settings and you're not in the quick edit mode?
It is showing for me in quick edit and under Style for the regular view, "Show timeline above the view" is checked, but the timeline isn't displayed.
I can switch to Gantt Chart and the timeline is displayed, but (of course) that's not what my customer prefers and I want the Modern experience if possible.
