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Changing existing document libraries to New Experience not working
Unbeknownst to me, I've created all of our subsites as "classic" as they were created under our main tenant site, which is also classic. I've created a document library under each subsite and have many folders on them.
When viewing the sites, the library appears as Classic, but when I click on the Doc Library heading, it shows in the New Experience. I went into the Library Settings and changed it to New Experience, cleared by browser cache, but it won't change. It only shows in new if I open the library link from the doc library list link ie title.
I tried a different browser and same issue. If I enter the URL for the doc library directly in my browser it opens it in the modern view (https://MYDOMAIN/HeadOffice/Site1/Site1Docs) so is this just a web part issue? Is it possible to insert this modern list on a classic site without having to redo all sites?
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The other odd thing is my subsite has an image on the background, yet when I view the new experience list, it displays the 3 columns I have then 50% of the page is blank and the whole thing is white and not showing the background image as my classic view does.
- Do you have any kind of customization in your sites that could be the cause of this behavior? Also when you talk about a image on the background: How did you add on your sites? By means of a classic SPO theme?
I have a script editor webpart added on our top-level site in order to embed yammer feeds, but the subsite I'm trying to view in New Experience only has a single document library webpart.
Yes in the classic Change the Look there is a way to add an image and it spans it across the whole site which looks great for our corporate logos and differentiating between different sites. When viewing the Classic Doc Library, the text of the folders is on top of the image and in the "new" experience, there is a large white box showing the folders which looks quite gross.
