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Chad_V_Kealey
Steel Contributor
Sep 04, 2018

Will Modern Pages ever allow "Web Part Connections" (to link related lists)? How about "Filters"?

One of the most powerful and, frankly, underused features in SharePoint (2010 and 2013) was the concept or practice of "connecting" related web parts. We used it ALL the time for things like: A lis...
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epiqbrian
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2019
Only connecting a list to the same list unfortunately... I've been following this thread in hopes someone has a breakthrough on this or MS finally releases this functionality.

Does anyone know if, on sharepoint online, should the classic sharepoint webpages still have all the filter webparts? We're missing ALL the filter webparts on our sharepoint.
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Contour
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2019

epiqbrian thanks for the reply, thats what I feared, its clear MS have been severely short sighted implementing these new modern web parts.

 

I was hoping the "list properties" web part where you have select Display = Selected Item would yield an for Display = Related Record but to no avail, or even that you could vary the "connect to source" setting and have this display the child list.

 

Certainly very very annoying to find this is still missing.

  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    Jun 28, 2019
    Have you guys ever considered making use of PowerApps? It's literally a thousand times more powerful than connecting lists in classic. You can easily have a webpart for it, if it has to live on a page, and you can connect many lists with much more powerful logic behind the app in the web part section for it.
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      epiqbrian
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 28, 2019

      ChrisWebbTech I've started to look at powerapps but I'm not sure where to start with there... I currently have a need where I want to filter multiple lists on a page through one user selected filter (dropdown ideally).

       

      Would you know if this is something that I can accomplish (without coding) using powerapps?

       

      Thanks for the suggestion...

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      DawgPoundMBA
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 28, 2019

      Yes I have considered this but it doesn't really achieve what we need. I need to have two full lists on a page and have list 2 update based on my selection from list.  I prefer to use standard functionality (versus custom built PowerApps) whenever possible.  It caught us off guard since it seems to be an elementary component that already existed in classic. 

       

      Plus PowerApps requires a license level above what is needed just for SharePoint so end user availability could be an issue. ChrisWebbTech 

      • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
        ChrisWebbTech
        MVP
        Jun 28, 2019
        Pretty sure if you use SharePoint Powerapp integration on a list it's included with pretty much all the SharePoint licenses. You could have a list page that has the list data and a filter just like a connected webpart on the screen. It's not too difficult to setup. Anyway, was a thought that would be able to give you a modern way of accomplishing similar if it's feasible since I've gone to using powerapps for anything I need drill down etc. with. I know they are heading down adding more options to connected but it really isn't a real option right now in modern.