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18454 TopicsHow are you creatively working around the SharePoint List View Threshold
Hi community I'm looking for outside-the-box approaches to dealing with the SharePoint List View Threshold (5,000 item limit). I'm familiar with the standard guidance, indexed columns, filtered views, folders, but I'm curious how others have solved this more creatively, especially in M365/SharePoint Online environments where you can't raise the threshold from the admin side. Additionally, if you've tackled this in a healthcare, government, or other highly regulated environment where you couldn't just move to an external database easily. Would love to hear what's worked (and what's blown up) in practice. Thanks in advance!32Views0likes0CommentsUpdated design for collapsible sections SharePoint
We're seeing an updated design for collapsible sections in SharePoint as of today. The control arrow for the section now appears either over ("Left") or under ("Right") the header. Is this intentional? If it's not intentional - I presume that the arrow should appear either to the left or right of the header, not over or under and this may be fixed soon. If it's intentional - please change this so that we have the option that it is actually to the left or right of the header! The extra space that is showing right now ruins the look of the design, and it's confusing which arrow belongs to which header.Solved192Views0likes2CommentsCollapsible section icon alignment no longer respected – recent SharePoint change?
Hi all, I’m looking to validate whether others are seeing a recent change to collapsible sections on modern SharePoint pages. Across multiple communication sites in our environment, the expand/collapse icon is no longer rendering inline with the section heading, despite the settings being configured correctly (e.g. alignment set to “Right”). Instead, the icon is now: appearing below the heading defaulting to the left-hand side ignoring the alignment setting in the section properties This change appears to have happened “overnight” and is consistent across all sites we’ve checked, not just a single page or site. Impact We rely heavily on collapsible sections for: knowledge guides FAQ-style content onboarding materials The current behaviour is: increasing vertical spacing unnecessarily reducing scan-ability of pages creating inconsistency between existing and newly rendered content It’s also causing confusion for content authors, as the settings no longer reflect what is displayed. Questions Is anyone else seeing the same behaviour across their tenant? Has this been confirmed as a design change vs a bug? Has anyone found a workaround or mitigation approach? I have already raised this and upvoted it on the Microsoft Feedback Portal and would encourage everyone to do the same if they are experiencing this issue. I'd rather not have to change the design across multiple SharePoint site - an enormous amount of work. Thanks!263Views6likes3CommentsCalander Pop-up Clipped Vertically
My SharePoint calendar pop-up is being clipped vertically and only displaying 4 days per week in the date picker. I created a new date column and the issue still persists. I tested in both Edge and Chrome with the browser zoom set to 100%, and the problem does not change when zooming in or out. Has anyone experienced this issue before or found a fix? Attached screenshot for ref erence.28Views1like1CommentGroup List together under site content
I'm working on a new site and working on creating all the new list and libraries. Might get really big really quick for the new department. There a way to group List together instead of making all the names the same? Doubt there is, just thought I'd ask.41Views0likes1CommentGet SharePoint list attachment images in Power BI
I have a SharePoint Online list with attachments. I am connecting to this list as a data source in Power BI using the SharePoint Online List option. When the list loads in Power BI, the Attachments column shows the number of attachments rather than a Table that can be expanded to get the URL. There are multiple YouTube videos that demonstrate this but I am not seeing a table. Is this a change in functionality? Is there another approach. I have also seen option of using the SharePoint Folder connector but this works only for document libraries. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.20Views0likes0CommentsHow to show folder path for documents in a flat SharePoint library view
I have a document library with a multi-level folder structure that is somewhat complex. I created a view that removes folders and displays all documents in a flat structure (no folders shown). How can I display or indicate the folder path (or location) for each document in this flat view, so users can understand where each file is stored within the original folder hierarchy?Solved63Views0likes2CommentsCustom column layout breaks on mobile view — SharePoint Online Communication Site
Hi everyone, I'm working on a SharePoint Online Communication Site and I've built a custom card section manually each element (image, text, badge, link) was added as a separate web part and organized inside a column section. On desktop it looks exactly as designed. The issue is on *mobile view*: all elements fall apart. The image sits alone at the top, the text below it disconnected, as if the column grouping doesn't exist at all. I understand SharePoint collapses columns into a single column on mobile, but I'd expect it to at least respect the visual grouping of each block. What I've already tried: - "Embed" web part → only accepts iframe, HTML/CSS not supported - "Script editor / Code snippet" web part → accepts inline CSS but it's not a sustainable solution for non-technical users My question: Is there any native setting, web part, or no-code alternative that allows custom card layouts to look good on both desktop and mobile without breaking the grouping? Thanks in advance.30Views0likes0CommentsI don't want 100 different SharePoint sites. How to create private teams w/o a new site?
Guys. WTF. I've inherited a problem where a company of 50 people has 100 sharepoint sites - because users created different Teams for different projects, and Microsoft makes it incredibly opaque what this actually means. Now we have 100 SharePoint sites, many of which are unused, but all of which appear in the list of sites in 365AC. The structure we WANT is 1 Sharepoint site for our 1 org, but multiple locations within that site, and multiple groups for multiple projects. I THOUGHT what could work was converting the excess Teams into Private Channels. But I have now learned that private channels ALSO create SharePoint sites, because _______. Most confusingly, all of these sharepoint 'sites' DO exist within our main SharePoint website - they're just pages (but not 'pages') pretending to be a fresh sharepoint website. This confuses the **** out of people, the way they've redefined what a 'site' is, what a 'team' is, etc. This is genuinely hot garbage, and it's suddenly clear to me why people always push back on using SharePoint over OneDrive. Recommendations for... not having this disaster? Making a structure that is intuitive and doesn't redefine what a site and page are, and allows you to have private locations for management or projects, but DOESN'T create a 'site' within the main 'site', with it's OWN 'documents', and it's own 'Notebook' (which isn't a document) and it's own 'Conversations' (which are NOT conversations), and it's own 'pages'? I don't work with dumb people - these are very technical people. But even our main SharePoint guy is mystified by these interactions. Does it make more sense in another language? If anyone at Microsoft is reading - the english term 'site', comes from the word 'website', which generally refers to a distinct web service with a distinct domain name. These contained different webPAGES.. When websites started existing off a shared domain name, like company1.sharepoint.com and company2.sharepoint.com - this confused people, but they put up with it, because it was relatively easy to explain the tech behind this - having websites under a single site, that wasn't too hard to understand. But what SharePoint seems to do, is extend this practice into absolute hysteria, where a particular webPAGE of a webSITE is ALSO a site, but also is a TEAM, or COULD be a CHANNEL. OR it could be a PAGE - WHO knows? If it's a TEAM, that TEAM could have CONVERSATIONS, which aren't actually Team Conversations - they're EMAILS. But this is fine, because all CONVERSATIONS of a TEAM done in TEAMS are actually stored as EMAILS so really those, CONVERSATIONS should be CONVERSATIONS... So why aren't these conversations in Teams between a Team that are stored as Emails not showing in the Conversations which show emails within that Team? aefggaddadsfasd252Views4likes6Comments