Spurious blank entry at top of a choice column entry

Hello all, With Sharepoint New Experience, I have created a list with a column, which is of type Choice, and contains a couple of items. When I go back to my list and create a new item, my data item...

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Roger Lysnes

Copper Contributor

Jan 16, 2020

I have now received the final answer on my support case with Microsoft. This has been changed intentionally and is now working by design. The extra blank option is there to stay and will not be removed...….unless many customers want it to change.

The theory on why this extra blank option was added, is to let the user deselect a selection. If no blank option is visible, the user can not deselect an use a blank value. I support his if you allow the field to be empty, but if you do not allow the field to be empty this is just annoying.

I think this extra blank option should be visible if you allow blank values, and NOT be visible if you DO NOT allow blank values.

Any thoughts about this?

JPHendo

Brass Contributor

Jan 23, 2020

so what, we just add in extra logic to our PowerAutomate flows that require a value (like Status update) to revert back to their original value after a user goes in an hits blank option by mistake? <insert face palm gif here>

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Spurious blank entry at top of a choice column entry