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- Feedback: Love this AMA format, with Mark MC'ing (not just saying because he covered my question ;-)), and the product leaders talking through the upcoming features and answering questions. Love this MUCH more than asynchronous AMAs. Only improvement would be to have this in a Teams meeting, with options for participant reactions. 🙂
- And more than 20 minutes per product.
- 1000% agree. On the MS 365 insider AMA a few weeks ago, I discovered that the AMA was using a non 365 platform. I think it would be so cool for Microsoft to flex community features on Teams and Viva so that we can get ideas for our own 365 use cases.
Will the new enhancements to List forms include the ability to conditionally hide/show columns in the form? Or any way to configure branching logic for follow-up questions on a form?
The show/hide conditional rules via Edit Form in SPO are great, but the logic/code is very complicated for business users. Having a UI to configure this would be extremely valuable.
- Mark-Kashman
Microsoft
This is not yet part of the v1 plan, Matthew. However, the team does have it on the backlog to implement based on existing ability to show/hide via logic within the native form. It would be possible to do, but not directly from the default user interface. Thanks for your feedback and time in joining the AMA. - Mark
Here is a first question to start things up:
Why can't we use @mentions in SharePoint document libraries comments as we can in Lists? We use it to keep the exchanges on a list item in the same place and to be sure that people are informed and I was surprised to find out the it is not possible in libraries. A library is basically a list with a required field that is the file. By the way, comments should behave the same way for all file types. Office or not.
- I didn't get an answer live. Will you at least take the time to reply in this post?
- Mark-Kashman
Hi Benoit, thank you both for your question and patience. The good news is the SharePoint document libraries are based on the Lists column platform, and the comments capabilities - including at-mentions - would appear once the common experience work is complete; of which, it is in transition to work toward a singular experience when working with files in OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, or on list items in Lists. - Mark
Plus, looping in Miceile Barrett & LincolnDeMaris to keep me honest.
- Lists: When will it be possible to assign something on a list as a task and have it appear in tasks / To do list?
- Mark-KashmanWe don't have timing to provide. The teams are reviewing some of the backend updates to the M365 task service - to make it easier for partner team to integrate. I've passed along this as feedback and appreciate you sharing your own insights. Thanks for your feedback and time in joining the AMA. - Mark
- *SharePoint: PDF editing is the biggest roadblock to modern interface (Teams and SharePoint in the bowser) user adoption in my experience (tens of clients). Why doesn't Microsoft facilitate to open PDF directly in the desktop app like it does for Word/Excel/PowerPoint. (And "Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft 365" or OneDrive Sync are absolutely not there yet BTW). *SharePoint: why are SPFx extensions not rendered in Teams Files Tab? My users are consuming SP Doc Libs from Teams now, and it does not make sense to extend SharePoint if not rendered in Teams as well. Said differently, Teams Files Tab should simply integrally render the complete SP experience instead of a partial mimic. *Lists: when will the LVT of 5000 items finally get lifted? It is still causing real pain on the field and there is no place for such a thing in a "modern" tool competing with other cloud solutions.
- I second this question around the threshold. This causes alot of problems when wanting to move a large list or document. At this moment we have to use pnp ps to run in batches which can take several hours to days to move.
- For the SharePoint team: Is there any chance of ever seeing SharePoint file metadata (custom properties) visible from File Explorer and/or Finder? A LOT of my clients rarely use the web apps and only access their files from the the desktop, so they do not get to benefit from custom properties.
- Sharepoint - There are still some really useful features that are yet to be modernized like Calendars. Are there any plans to bring them into modern? Calendar views in lists are okay but lacking features/integrations into Outlook and have scenarios outside of group connected sites; Events is incredibly rigid
- +1 on this!
- ++1 on this!
- Opening the files in their native apps is huge. Meeting view and People view are wonderful news. Thanks
- Lists: If you have a list on one site, you can't embed it on another. Are there any plans to allow displaying lists across different sites?
- I use the Bitalus List Search web part. A bit geeky but great functionality.
- Are recurring events for Lists in the roadmap? We have 2 organizations (hospital system and teaching hospital) that have separate tenants. Get A LOT of requests to manage common calendar. Current choices (modern list, classic sharepoint calendar) doesn't include channel calendar, because 1/2 of group are guests. Love that bringing in week view.
