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. {edited by admin}

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...

I really hate when Microsoft makes needless changes just to create confusion and frustration and loss of productivity for my staff. And more work for me.

Update from Microsoft support:The core functionality of SharePoint Lists has been updated to resemble Microsoft Lists. It’s important to note that rolling back the core functionality of SharePoint Lists to a previous state cannot be possible. Microsoft has removed Wiki which we relied upon HEAVILY for organization instructions. Microsoft is changing Power Automate which I work in EVERY DAY to build automated workflows. Now they've altered a core platform that 500 people rely upon to observe and maintain thousands of projects around the world. It has become readily apparent that we have made the wrong choice to partner with (pay for) Microsoft to build and sustain our business. I'm exhausted with having to undo and research alternatives to things Microsoft has killed or broken. This is not what my job should be.

We are starting to see this change across our business too and not a good experience. A lot of our custom list/view formatting is breaking, which is causing havoc, the ability for people to clear our filtered views is horrible, and the tabs (views) across the top are also not great, especially when you have a lot of custom views. In addition, the filters labels are showing the internal names of our columns (how hard can it be to get this right).We are only seeing the new MS List view in some of our SharePoint lists and only for certain users which is making it an even worse experience. We have approx. 50k users, so a massive impact for us.Please provide us a way to disable this change until you fix everything (should have been done before the initial rollout).

I had a simple set of lists for various sites across the country that we used to track the movements of backup tapes. Nothing flashy and no formulas in the spreadsheet. Everything worked fine until today. The list of views used to appear in a drop down menu now it appears every view has its own tab.The filter stayed remembered the last state in that if the filter was open when you closed the page it would still be open when you logged in again. Now you have to click on the filter icon every single time. When updating the date column if you change the 1st cell then drag down to update the rest of the column random red flag errors appear saying there is an error in the cell. This never happened before. And last but not least if you hit ctrl +p to print the page as a pdf most of the time only the first column of data appears but if you close and repeat a few times (usually no more than 2 or 3) suddenly all the data on the page miraculously appears in the pdf. I know and understand Microsoft can make whatever changes they want to their products and we choose to use them but come on guys these changes look like someone forgot to lock the desktop when they went for a comfort break and someone fraped their code

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McAVoy1435
Copper Contributor
Oct 01, 2024
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?
Igor_MS
Copper Contributor
Sep 06, 2024
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.
- grant_jenkins
  Steel Contributor
  Sep 06, 2024
  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).
aprildrake
Copper Contributor
Sep 05, 2024
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...
CraigYYC
Copper Contributor
Aug 20, 2024
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
  Aug 26, 2024
  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.
  - Anthony-123
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 26, 2024
    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.
DenitzaMoreau
Copper Contributor
Aug 12, 2024
Has Microsoft replied here as to how to fix the interface with power-apps? this is a total disaster
IsaSilver
Copper Contributor
Aug 02, 2024
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".
frevd
Copper Contributor
Jul 03, 2024
FYI: Registering any SPFX List extension (CommandSet) for the list disables the new look and returns to the default modern look.
- DavePh
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 04, 2024
  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.
- cujones4
  Brass Contributor
  Jul 03, 2024
  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?
DavePh
Copper Contributor
Jun 27, 2024
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.
- AndyM4c
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 27, 2024
  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
  - DavePh
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 04, 2024
    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.
cujones4
Brass Contributor
Jun 26, 2024
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...
- RPM35
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 26, 2024
  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
Gti182
Copper Contributor
Jun 21, 2024
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.

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