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Chad_V_Kealey
Iron 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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snyderdavida
Brass Contributor
Sep 05, 2018

This has been added to the Roadmap as coming in 2019.

  • Contour's avatar
    Contour
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 28, 2019

    Has anyone achieved anything of use in regards to connecting a list web part to another list web part so you can show a parent / child related list easily? In the classic experience, you had a list view and you could edit the display page and add a second related list to show related records.  Since related lists are key to how I would imagine EVERYONE uses sharepoint, I am very surprised and somewhat shocked that this isnt yet possible.

     

    Thanks everyone, happy Friday.

    • epiqbrian's avatar
      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.
      • Contour's avatar
        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.

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    Luca Bandinelli
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    Sep 06, 2018

    Hello everyone, great conversation topic!

     

    Let me try to provide some clarity on this topic. First, my name is Luca Bandinelli and the PM owner of the SharePoint Framework under the SharePoint Engineering Team.

     

    As part of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) we released a new feature called Dynamic Data which basically brings the same capability of part to part communications (and much more!) to the Modern SharePoint User Experience.

    This feature, initially released in version 1.5 of SPFx framework, is currently marked as "Developer Preview"; this means you can use it for testing and even for prototyping but it's not recommended to be used in production environments as some APIs can change in behaviors before we release the feature for production. And backward compatibility with Preview features is not guaranteed.

    We are however working very hard to make it production ready sometime this calendar year.

     

    in the meantime, here are some pointers to start getting familiar with Dynamic Data:

    Last, if you are planning to come to Microsoft Ignite, we will have sessions where we will present Dynamic Data capabilities both for end users and developers.

     

    Thanks,

    Luca 

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