customRowActions stop working when item is refreshed

[thechriskent]

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Expected or Desired Behavior

In list formatting, you can specify a customRowAction with an action value. These buttons should work even after a list item refreshes.

Observed Behavior

Clicking on a button with an action set to editProps will open the edit item property pane as expected. However, if you make any updates and apply them the item will refresh with your formatting, but the action button will no longer work. Other item's action buttons continue to work, but the refreshed item's button does not until you refresh the page:

Steps to Reproduce

Create a view or column format with a button element and set the customRowAction action property to editProps. Click the button and see the property panel open. Make an update. See that you can't click the button again until you refresh.

[ggunk]

I have this same issue.

[ldemaris]

Thanks for reporting this. We just attempted to repro this in our internal environment, and couldn't. It's possible this was a temporary issue and might have gotten fixed inadvertently through some other change that was made. We will keep an eye on this.

[thechriskent]

@ldemaris I am still seeing this issue in my tenant.

[lucs17]

@ldemaris @VesaJuvonen Unfortunately, this is still an issue. Is there any update on this?
Please work on this for a better usability on modern lists.

Thank you!

[navarrorc]

@thechriskent How did you apply those icons to the button element?

[deepuvijayannair]

This is still happening in our tenant. Is there a fix that's found out?

[winterscar]

Happening on 3 of our clients tennants too. I would love to hear about a workaround.

[Nerih]

same issue too!

[JoeAyre]

Same issue and would say it's not isolated to the editProps action, but in fact related to all customRowActions. For instance, if a button that launches a flow has a visibility that is conditional on a column value, if you edit an item to make whatever that condition is 'true' (and thus displaying the button that launches a flow), the button won't work until the page is refreshes or reloaded.

I suppose a fix would be for a refresh to be called every time an item is edited and the edit properties panel is saved, the problem is that there is no 'Save' or 'OK' to hook in to.

It's a bit of a guess, but what might be happening here is that because properties are saved whilst actually in the edit properties panel is open (the little 'Saving...' > 'Saved' text and tick pops up), there is no 'OK' or 'Save' button and therefore no action to trigger a page refresh - you just effectively close or cancel the edit properties panel. Maybe a simple fix would be to apply a page refresh when edit properties panel is closed no matter how you close it, or detect a change to the properties and arm the trigger when the edit properties panel is closed.