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MC267581: Additional Custom list templates in Microsoft Lists

Updated June 7, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

This new feature will support the addition of custom list templates from your organization alongside the ready-made templates Microsoft provides to make it easy to get started tracking and managing information. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70753.

Today, we have several ready-made List templates designed to make it easy to get started tracking and managing information – like events, issues, and requests. We’re pleased to announce that we will be supporting custom list templates – the ability for organizations to define custom list templates. Note, you will be able to manage which templates are available to which people, based on their job role.

MC267581: Additional Custom list templates in Microsoft Lists

Affected Workloads

  • SharePoint Online

Key points

  • Timing:
    • Targeted release (entire org): Complete
    • Standard release: will roll out in mid-September (previously mid-May) and be complete by early November (previously mid-June)
  • Roll-out: tenant level
  • Control type: user control / admin control
  • Action: review, assess and educate

How this will affect your organization

This feature will give organizations the ability to create their own custom list templates with custom formatting and schema. It will also empower organizations to create repeatable solutions within the same Microsoft Lists infrastructure (including list creation in SharePoint, Teams, and within the Lists app itself).

End-user impact: Visual updates to the list creation dialog and the addition of a From your organization tab when creating a new list. This new tab is where your custom list templates appear alongside the ready-made templates from Microsoft.
This new tab is where your custom list templates appear alongside the ready-made templates from Microsoft.

Admin impact: Custom list templates can only be uploaded by a SharePoint administrator for Microsoft 365 by using PowerShell cmdlets. For consistency, the process of defining and uploading custom list templates is like the custom site templates experience.

To define and upload custom list templates, admins will use the following site template PowerShell cmdlets:

The visual updates for this feature will be seen by end-users in the updated user interface (UI) when creating a list.

The From your organization tab will be empty until your organization defines and publishes custom list templates.

The From your organization tab will be empty until your organization defines and publishes custom list templates.

What you need to do to prepare

You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate.

Learn more

Message ID: MC267581
Published: 08 July 2021
Updated: 07 June 2022
Effective: January 17, 2022

Alex Lim is a certified IT Technical Support Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex IT systems and networks. He has worked for leading IT companies, such as Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco, providing technical support and solutions to clients across various industries and sectors. Alex has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore and a master’s degree in information security from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of several best-selling books on IT technical support, such as The IT Technical Support Handbook and Troubleshooting IT Systems and Networks. Alex lives in Bandar, Johore, Malaysia with his wife and two chilrdren. You can reach him at [email protected] or follow him on Website | Twitter | Facebook

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