Microsoft has released Microsoft Lists for iOS devices in the beginning of the year and this week at Ignite a new version compatible with Android devices just got announced.
The mobile version of Microsoft Lists gives you access to data while on the go with an interface adjusted to the small screens making the interaction with data a pleasant experience.
Microsoft Lists, an evolution of SharePoint lists was released with several predefined templates that can be used as a starting point when creating a new list. Despite including templates this new platform was missing the list template feature that was available in the classic world of SharePoint.
List templates in Microsoft Lists can only be created by the global administrator and the process is only available using PowerShell.
I’m happy to announce that today the book I co-authored with Rene Modery about Microsoft Lists is getting published.
Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible and powerful platform for creating custom data models. Hands-On Microsoft Lists is an easy-to-read guide for those who want to get started with Lists, as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and want to create custom and flexible Lists that are easily available through a web interface.
Views in SharePoint lists and Microsoft Lists allow you to format and pre-filter the information that is displayed in the lists.
One of the options available out of the box to use as a view is the gallery layout that transforms any list row into a tile featuring image and person columns.
The Title column was one of the major pain points SharePoint lists had in the past as it was impossible to remove it, or even rename to adjust it to the context of the list.
Since July 2020 and with the release of Microsoft Lists is now possible to easily rename the Title column in 3 easy steps.
Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists now include a column type dedicated exclusively to images that allows a user to upload an image directly to the form and displays a small thumbnail of the image in the list view.
This was a massive improvement when compared with the classic hyperlink/picture column type and in this article, I will show you how to take the new Image column type to the next using column formatting.
List forms are generated automatically when a new list is created but sometimes it simply does not meet the business requirements and when that happens you need to create custom forms.
SharePoint list forms can be customized since forever and if you know the platform for a log time, things like InfoPath and Power Apps might sound familiar to you as these were the tools used to build custom forms.
Microsoft Lists continues the quest to conquer the world of lightweight databases, after being available for the web and Microsoft Teams now it gets a dedicated app for iOS that will allow you to carry your lists in your pocket.
The Microsoft Lists application for iOS provides you access to the same features you already know from the web and Teams versions and as a bonus you will get a new template to create lists to manage your expenses from your phone.
As seen in the previous article SharePoint and Microsoft Lists now have a modern calendar view that can be applied to any list.
While trying to define the calendar as a default view I’ve found two blocker issues and end up with a broken calendar not showing any information, thankfully PowerShell can always be used in situations like this when the interface does not fulfill the expectations.
After years dealing with the classic SharePoint calendar finally Microsoft has made the modern calendar available for Microsoft Lists and SharePoint.
If you were used to the classic calendar you must know that the new approach to the calendar is completely different and there is no such thing as a calendar template.
This means that any existing list can suddenly become a calendar, the only requirement is the existence of a date column in the list!
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