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Hello, I'm using NINTEX Forms for SharePoint on-premises and have built a responsive form.  My issue is that the form "loses focus" on the filtered SharePoint Personal View when the user closes the form, and returns instead to her default SharePoint Personal View.

 

The background:

The primary user of the form uses a SharePoint Personal View to access the form from the SharePoint list.  Her Personal View shows 75 items at a time in batches, but allows her to select a subset of items using checkboxes in the column filter.   (Whether these individual checkboxes appear pinstead of "Show Filter Choices" where you can pick only a single value] seems to be controlled by how many items are listed in the View and whether there are filters built into the View, which there are).

 

For example, she would select checkboxes for the ID column, say 6 choices are ticked:

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After ticking the checkboxes and clicking off of the pulldown menu, the Personal View page refreshes to show only those 6 items she selected.  Next, she picks an item to edit and this opens the Responsive Form as expected.  She makes her edits and Saves (or Cancels) out of the form.  The form closes as expected.

 

Now the problem:  After closing, instead of returning her to her filtered Personal View showing 6 items, the form returns her to her original Personal View with 75 items.

 

According to the user, this loss of focus did not happen before:  the form returned her to her filtered view of 6 items.  I am able to duplicate the issue with a Personal View that matches hers exactly, but not with other Personal Views I've thrown together.  The URL to her "default" Personal View is 155 characters long, while a filtered Personal View URL may be substantially longer (355 characters, for example) but still under SharePoint's 400-character limit.  Perhaps NINTEX has a URL length limit, but we have not updated NINTEX in a long time, and as I mentioned, she says this used to work.

 

There is nothing currently in the Form Settings that modifies the redirect URL.

 

Anything I should try?  (I didn't see a way to grab her URL used to come into the form, so that I could put it in a form variable and then pull it out again for the Redirect URL.)

 

Thank you,

anne1iese

The answer turned out to be that Responsive Forms can't return you to a SharePoint Personal View with individual items selected, so use Classic instead.


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