Grouped views in SharePoint list add grouped by column to view

Question

Recently, lists in SharePoint Online have started to display fields a list is "Grouped by" as columns in the list view when the list is expanded. Even if you deselect the column the list is grouped by it will still appear. We tried creating new views, hiding the column etc. nothing worked. Many of our lists use the groupings as headers and we don't want the information to be displayed once as a header and once as a column. Any advice on how to resolve this? Hoping it is just a temporary bug.

Answer 1

Dear AMMackie,

Good morning!

Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community. We will be happy to help you. We are investigating your situation and will update the thread shortly.

I appreciate your patience and understanding and appreciate your time and cooperation.

Sincerely

Sean | Microsoft Community Moderator

Answer 2

Dear AMMackie,

Good day!!

Apologies for the inconvenience caused and please don’t worry, let’s work together on your concern and move towards a resolution path.

I understand your concern and I would like to let you know that I have tested the behavior at my end where I able to reproduce the same behavior as per the screenshot you have shared in the description.

In this situation, then I believe the problem should be reported and further investigated by related development team via collecting HAR logs because there is no any related service incident reported at the Microsoft Service Health dashboard.

I do feel regret for not resolving the problem and redirecting you to the related development team but the fix to your concern can be find out through the HAR logs and suggest you raise a support ticket from the Office 365 admin center, where the related team will investigate the problem further by collecting the HAR logs.

Reference: Get support - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn

Note: To create a support ticket, you need to have admin privileges and if you aren’t admin of your Office 365 organization, please contact the admin of creating a new ticket.

Appreciate your patience and understanding. Have a great day!!

Best Regards,

Sophia

Answer 3

Seeing the same behaviour , would be good to know if this is a new "feature" or a bug

Answer 4

Hi Sophia,

Are you able to tell us if this was reported and if it's being looked at? This is really causing problems with some of our views.

I appreciate any update you can give. Thank you.

Answer 5

I did raise a ticket and the outcome was that this is "By Design". You can add feedback requesting for this to be changed as well and hopefully it will be. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ 

I've posted this idea as well: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/5149470c-0ecc-ee11-92be-000d3a0e6cad