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Approval Status Column Suddenly Numeric - Due to Column Formatting?
I'm working in my tenant and noticed an issue with all of my lists that have content approval turned on. The approval status column now lists a number instead of the words "Approved" | "Rejected" | "...
Jeff_Lacarte nfsg20 DavidLang Amiryunus SteveB aricornish YeBuu mcancela Duncan2450 Gavin Tully TonieB
This is happening because of recent change in JSON schema to officially support Approval Status column in JSON formatting.
Due to this update, the @currentField and [$_ModerationStatus] will resolve to internal code (enum value) and @currentField.displayValue and [$_ModerationStatus.displayValue] will resolve to the localized string (I guess according to language).
The Microsoft official docs will be updated with more info in the coming weeks. You can check the details for now at: SharePoint Online Column Formatting for Approval Status: uses language specific text?
Related Read: How to find the Internal name of columns in SharePoint Online?
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We have the same issue with impact to the whole list.
The Approval Status formatting was used in our lists also for the other columns in the same list, however, the formatting is not working with the number "0" and also not for the word "Approved".
It is really a pity because it was really nice and simple feature to see the approval status in the first column. I hope that Pernille-Eskebo will solve this issue.