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Nov 02, 2017

Column formatting now rolling out to first release users

Hi all, I would like to update you all on the rollout progress of the column formatting feature. Today, we begun rolling this feature out to first release users. All first release users will ...

Iron Contributor

Dec 12, 2017

Column formatting with JSON works great (I'm only trying to word wrap long titles), but as soon as I close the JSON code text box, the formatting is lost - I can't get the code to persist, either when I apply it from the column in the view, or from the Library settings page.

Is there a trick or a default setting I need to unwind in order for the code to be persisted?

This is the simple JSON code I'm using.

{
"elmType": "div",
"txtContent": "@currentField",
"style": { "white-space" : "normal" }
}

Thanks,

Owen

Owen Allen

Iron Contributor

Dec 12, 2017

So, I should have stated yesterday that it was the "Title" column where this is not persisting.

(In this doclib, Title is only a line of text, no link to edit, etc.)

In other columns, working fine.

Deleted; jcgonzalezmartin

Deleted
Dec 12, 2017
Owen, yes looks like you are right ... all other columns seem to work, just not the title column.
- Owen Allen
  Iron Contributor
  Dec 12, 2017
  And in another tenant, the new doclib has a "Name" column, and it works fine there.
  
  I can't get a "Title" column in a new doclib. This is a migrated doclib that still has a TItle column - perhaps there is some artifact that persisted there. But there must be a lot of doclibs that have both "Title" and "Name" still out there. - let's hope it's still worth a fix for "Title".? Or, maybe I can be told what I need to clear out of this doclib.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Owen
  - LincolnDeMaris
    Microsoft
    Dec 13, 2017
    The issue where column formatting breaks wrapping on the title field is a known issue - we've got the bug logged and hopefully a fix will be available soon.
    
    Owen Allen is that the issue you're talking about, or are you seeing your entire formatting JSON not persisting in some title columns?