Hello,
I have a Document Library that I am using to allow users to download documents. I had an excel sheet with information about each document (over 800 documents). I converted the excel sheet to a SharePoint List and then used a LookUp column in the Document Library to link each document to its corresponding List item and display the information.
There are approximately 15 columns of information in the List, and one of the columns is multiple lines of text that has over 1,000 characters of text for most entries. This is too much to display in the List or in the Document Library. It is better to allow users to click on the Title of the item to "view more information."
The link to each list item that appears in the LookUp column opens in a new tab by default. I'm not really sure why this is default. In a normal column (not LookUp), the link would load in a dialogue box by default.
Is there a way to have my LookUp column links open in a dialogue box instead of a new tab? It is much cleaner and easier to view all the information in a dialogue box vs. a new tab, simply because the dialogue box is smaller. The new tab is quite large and makes the information harder to view, in my opinion. Plus, it requires the user to navigate away from the document library, which could be confusing for some users.
Any help or suggestions to address this issue would be appreciated. Thank you.