Next Experience In-Line Editing on a Related List

Andy Smith2
Tera Contributor

‎05-08-2023 03:29 AM

We are making extensive use of the Next Experience Record Page and the Related Lists that work with it.

 

Our Related Lists are configured to include the most relevant fields, dependent upon the context.

 

Examples include the following:

 

  • Number
  • Short description
  • Date/time fields
  • Boolean fields

 

While it’s great that we can connect our data model with Related Lists, it would be so much better if we could edit the values of the fields presented in these related lists, with an “in-line editing” mode, updating the underlying data held in the referenced tables.

 

The UI16 interface on the platform does exactly what I’m looking to be able to do:

 

  1. Edit a text field

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  1. Edit a boolean field

 

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  1. Edit a date/time field

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I’ve been scouring the forums for ideas on how to make the same functionality work in the Next Experience.

 

Here’s the same Related List in the new UI:

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Double-clicking on any of the fields in this UI does not enable editing. The best we get is “Show Matching / Filter out”.

 

I found this post from Maik Skoddow but it’s not quite the inline editing solution I’m looking for.

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-articles/how-to-enable-related-list-editing-at-agent-works...

 

This feels like such a generic requirement that the UI16 platform delivers – I wonder if an expert out there knows if there’s a way to replicate this much-needed UI pattern in the Next Experience?

 

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

Andy

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ashr
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

‎05-08-2023 09:31 AM

Hi Andy,

 

Have you tried setting the glide.lists.inline_editing_enabled system property to true?

 

Inline editing for Next Experience lists was delivered in Rome, but the actual feature was shipped off by default.

Andy Smith2
Tera Contributor

‎05-08-2023 09:52 AM

Thanks Ashr... appreciate the update to my question.  I've received the same advice from a few sources now so that's good. Many thanks for responding. Andy     

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Thomas Buecker
Tera Contributor
In response to Andy Smith2

‎06-15-2023 12:12 AM

Hi Andy,
did it work for you?
I'm asking because I get always the message "Inline editing is not allowed for this table".
I have enabled the sys_property and did the proposed modification from Maik Skoddow.
KR Thomas

SimonSimon
Giga Sage

‎07-25-2023 05:25 PM

@Andy Smith2 did you manage to find a solution to "Inline Editing is disabled for this list"?

 

I'm looking into Maik Skoddow's solution in the meantime, but I would much rather have the same functionality as UI16 that you are looking for. 

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