Why did some of my team members, view of our sharepoint list change from "all items" dropdown to a side by side tab view for "all items"?

Question

I have several sharepoint lists that I have built for my team. A week or so ago, some views changed for only a few people. They do not like this view and would like to revert back to original view. The top dropdown view is what we want to have consistently, not the side by side.

Answer 1

Hi @Stotler, Kim ,

Thank you for posting in this community.

It's a normal phenomenon. This is a new experience released by Microsoft for List.

Microsoft made views easier to create and access by arranging them into tabs at the top of the screen. users can use custom views that slice, dice, and arrange the right information for specific audiences or scenarios.

This will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.

Because of the way how these features are rolling out, some users may see these features before other users within the same organization.

Hope the information can help you.

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Answer 2

our just updated to this and my big question now is how do we get rid of this? this new set up if horrid and not functional for my teams, even if we try the "Return to classic SharePoint" it takes to the old SP that was even worse.

and with the new view we get a "x has this list open" or "x has this list open but is inactive" near the manage access tab which is so extremely annoying.

Is there an option or coding we can do to get rid of this?

Answer 3

Microsoft forced this change without warning, it's breaking things, and they seem to be ignoring those wanting changes or answers.

shrugs

Answer 4

A couple of things we found that might help those experiencing some issues we experienced with the new update:

• If you find you can no longer sort/filter directly on a column, click on the little down arrow on one of the View tabs to expand its menu. While it is still open, now go to the down arrow beside your column title you wish to sort/filter. You can also use a funnel icon that sits at the left of the View tabs.
• If you find you have a CustomSetAction button that no longer works, you may have too many conditions in an "if" statement for it to do so. Try implementing extra hidden buttons and make them use only up to 2 conditions (if this, do that, or else, do this other thing), and show the appropriate one based on a visibility condition instead of making the action code sort out what condition to use for only 1 button.

Originally, not all of our views were getting shown in the tabbed layout, but they seem to have fixed this and they now appear in a dropdown at the end of the tabs.

If others are experiencing issues, I'd encourage posts in this thread. Microsoft developers have been made aware of this page and we were told they will monitor it when we opened a ticket with them and received assistance on that 2nd bullet we were having issues with after the update.