New button on lists and edit feature on images suddenly stopped working for me.

Question

SharePoint Server 2019

I can't edit the hyperlinks in my lists for some reason and pressing the new button makes the screen freeze now. I can't even edit pages on my other site either. Edit user and remove user permissions are no longer showing for me currently. Sites were working perfectly and then randomly this issue started occurring. I have full permissions and as well as being the site owner.

Answer 1

Hi Tevon2.0, here are the tests I did locally, I hope it can help you.

Issue 1: can't edit the hyperlinks in my lists and pressing the new button makes the screen freeze now.

I tested it locally and can reproduce the same issue, when clicking the New button to add a new item, the page stops responding.

And per our research, this issue may be due to a problem with the backend response.

For this case, I would recommend setting column as single text first, and then change the single text format to hyperlink format via Format Column.

Note: Hyperlinks in the email account format cannot be linked to the web page for that mailbox.

Here is the JSON text for your reference:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "a",
  "attributes": {
    "href": "@currentField",
    "target": "_blank"
  },
  "txtContent": "@currentField"
}

Issue 2: couldn't publish pages on site.

In my environment, I can solve it by activating the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature. You can try it following the below steps:

Note: You must have admin privileges to enable publishing features.

1. From the Site Contents page, select Site settings.

2. On the Site Settings page under Site Collection Administration, select Site collection features.
3. On the Site Collection Features page, scroll down to SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and select Activate.

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