Custom PowerApps form always displayed in document library

[BartSchaap]

In a SP list  when a custom form is present,  it is always shown. But in a SP document library the custom form is shown only when the user clicks 'edit all'.  This is confusing to the user and also there are 2 interfaces to the metadata at the same time. It would be much better when the behavior in a list and a library is the same.

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[PhilD]

Please Microsoft, there are so many issues like this I can't even begin to list them all. I understand that advanced features are desirable to some users in some use cases, but there are so many times we can't even think about using SharePoint to streamline a process because we would just end up spending our time trying to explain how all these little idiosyncrasies are supposed to work (to a base of users who really don't care and use other systems that are simply intuitively discoverable).

[johnnyshield]

A further issue that hobbles PowerApps forms in document libraries (particularly with PDFs), you need to open the library first, then open the document for the PowerApp custom form to display. 

While this is generally a normal workflow, it prevents direct links to the file from working (e.g. from an email).

You can test this by:

1. open a pdf in a SharePoint doc lib, then open details pane.
2. Copy URL to a new browser tab
3. Open details pane, click Edit all.
4. PowerApps form will fail to load