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What is going on with LISTS?
All of the sudden, one of our SharePoint Lists has completely changed its appearance and function. It has more of the new list style now. We have to change this back to retain its functionality immediately.
I found this post about the change https://oneminuteofficemagic.com/2024/05/10/new-list-view-layout-in-sharepoint-online/comment-page-1
Apparently using Power Automate to add something to a List no longer works. Thanks for breaking a workflow that's been the core of our operations for over three years.
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER. I CAN NOT BELIEVE MICROSOFT IS ADMINS OVER SO HARD LIKE THIS. GIVE US BACK SHAREPOINT LISTS!!
THIS IS UNUSABLE!!!!
OUR ENTIRE ORGANIZATION RUNS OFF SHAREPOINT LISTS AND NOW WE CAN NOT USE IT. WHY DO YOU INSIST ON INCREASING COMPLEXITY AND DECREASING USABILITY? STOP MAKING MY JOB HARDER EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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Anthony-123 MS sucks in every day. One might think that Microsoft's purpose is to put even more obstacles in users' way and to complicate the simplest processes or not offer them at all. Why, for example, can't you copy **bleep** lists with one click and migrate them to a new page?
- Hi, I've just started experiencing issues with it too. In my case, both the lists (display) names and columns (display) names keep changing to their internal equivalents. For instance, I have a list with internal name lstBalances (display name: Cash Balances) and a column in it of an internal name colBalanceDate (display name: Balance Date). Up until recently SharePoint would show display names only, as expected. However recently it started displaying internal names instead. It isn't always consistent in this, meaning that sometimes only the list name would be changed, sometimes column names and some other times both. This is really annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? I've been wondering whether this is somehow related to external users (guest domain users) having access to those lists.
- We're also seeing that, and as you mentioned, it's random across our lists. We haven't been able to identify any reason it happens on some lists and not on others.
The whole rollout is a mess as far as we are concerned - should never have happened until all these issues had been resolved (should have all come up in Microsoft's testing / quality control).
- I think they JUST fixed it...I checked all my lists and the OLD style is back in place - with the bonus that when I click an item I not only get my old form view back, I have the Edit Form button as well as the Comments expanded...
- This is getting rolled out to the tenant here. It is a total disaster for the custom JSON views we built and were working perfectly. I can reset some of them by creating a power app list form which pulls it back to the previous version, however that isn't always possible and it does not work with Libraries. Now I have to go page by page in the large intranet here to figure out what all is going to break for everyone as they get updated. I hate having another useless icon on the page too.
- AskSaurabh
Microsoft
Hi, I'm Saurabh from the SharePoint / Lists team. We have been actively reviewing all issues and feedback to improve Lists experience. All known JSON formatting related issues and most other bugs are now fixed and fully rolled out. If you are still seeing any further issue we request you to share details including the JSON itself so we can investigate it at priority.
PS: In order to effectively track issue, we request you to file each issue with as much detail on Lists feedback portal https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/ab3ad59e-6dd1-ec11-a7b5-0022481f35a4 and post issue link here.- Perhaps a company like Microsoft could FULLY test something before it's deployed to millions of customers without their knowledge or permission. No, I suppose being a responsible business partner is not something Microsoft would ever consider.
I genuinely do not have the time to sit down and document the wreckage that this has caused. Because the only thing Microsoft can be trusted to do is break all the things that have worked comfortably for years. our company is actively seeking an alternative to Microsoft for our corporate needs.
- Has Microsoft replied here as to how to fix the interface with power-apps? this is a total disaster
I wouldn't be as pissed it offers the same functionality as the old. But no it doesn't. Their overzealous push for their new product offering with even less functionality than the old is really just poor decision making. In my case, and unfortunate enough for me, the new platform does not even allow me to do the same thing so I have to change architecture of my app entirely.
Combined with some authoritarian push to hope people will adopt the new platform more by breaking stuff in the old, you really are not making people jump to the new platform because people cannot and they are forced to look for new platforms and chances are, "no, MS, I don't want to get burned the second time so I don't care, I will find a way to make sure you are not the winning bid or the recommended vendor".- FYI: Registering any SPFX List extension (CommandSet) for the list disables the new look and returns to the default modern look.
frevd Thanks! I just added a sharepoint integrated power app form to the list and it disabled the new look as suggested. It's a very slim list which is populated using LogicApp anyway - no manual data entry so form layout isn't important and was easy to implement. Much appreciated - single-click experience for my users has been restored.
frevd hi Fred. I did a quick search for how to do this, and it’s unclear if this is something a site admin can do or a 365 admin. Sorry if I’m missing something obvious. Even if this is the case, is it a work around or something that Microsoft will “address” in its effort to impose the new experience on admins that have found a loophole?
- SO... this explains the issue we've just encountered. I have been using a 'text' field to store a hyperlink that could be clicked on to navigate to a SharePoint record from within a list view. This no longer works - the pointer will recognise it's a hyperlink, provide the hyperlink preview in the bottom left corner of Edge, but the 'click' action is ignored - same behaviour in Edge and Chrome.
If I store a hyperlink in a hyperlink field, I can use the click through from a List View. The problem is, hyperlink fields are limited to 255 characters. I was using '?source=...' to return the user to their personalised Lists and this no longer fits in a hyperlink field.
So what was a nice one click solution (to double click open a record and then click on the hyperlink, return me to my list. Is now a three click solution. OR a one click, ugly opens-a-new tab solution and returns the user to the form's native list - not the personalised list.
Not happy - it just makes us admins/devs look bad in the business when app behaviour changes like this unexpected and then we waste time researching, looking for fixes, having to explain, implementing a fix that is not as elegant... Our jobs are busy and hard enough as it is.- Try the brave browser. I have noticed several things in edge and lists that dont work in chrome of firefox but work ok in brave not sure why
AndyM4c thanks - our Corporate MOE is tightly locked down to either Edge or Chrome. We cannot install any other browser. In fact all of our apps are delivered via a Company Portal. Edge is preferred over Chrome as we use document attachments to sharepoint records and Chrome forces users to 'download' an attachment rather than view/edit within the browser/app (i.e. making it a collaborative experience). So I am very limited here to even be able to troubleshoot with an alternate browser. But thank you for your suggestion.
Anthony-123 Due to bugs in the new Lists, our business office has moved back to Excel. They cannot reliably copy paste rows or use Excel-like keyboard functionality without losing focus to the mouse/browser. I can tell they've lost confidence in SharePoint overall and my advocacy for it. I suspect that they'll shift to Smartlists based on recommendations from peers that use it.
As an IT consultant, it's challenging enough to educate staff on the value of SharePoint, and when it finally clicks for them and this happens...
In case this helps any-
We have issues as well. With our users it was the UI issues with column headers on left hand of the page that causes the most issues. To get by this issue for now, we can add "?disable3PCode=true" to the end of the SharePoint list URL to at least help with the column header alignment
This update has been slowly rolled out across our organisation over the past few months and as of this week it seems that everyone has the update which is causing endless headaches almost daily we are encountering new issues.
The latest issue's we're trying to figure out is when using a combination of a couple of column filters and a single column grouping the filters work for the first grouping section but not for the rest. Oddly enough this issue doesn't happen in Brave browser but does in the lists app, chrome and edge browsers.
Another major issue which wasn't the case before the update - all 3 below issues are related to the export to excel function 1) no longer respecting user level permissions or 2) folder level hierarchy and 3) filtered views when exporting to excel.
1) Users with folder level permissions (can only view/edit items within folders to which they have access) can somehow now see the entire list data when exporting to excel which is a massive data security issue.
2) When exporting list items from a specific folder within a folder hierarchy it exports all list data once again not only data from within that folder.
3) Also it's not possible to export a filtered view, more info here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/sharepoint-modern-lists-interface-exports-to-excel/c850b3de-5da5-4e1d-b701-7c87e2b1caa3
We are now having to look into disabling the export to excel function until this bug can be corrected.
