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pnthrzrule
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Apr 24, 2020
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Conditional Formatting Files Older Than Certain number of days or years

Hello Everyone,   I'm aware of the new Conditional Formatting Rule builder that just dropped to my tenant last week. However, I'm wanting to implement formatting that will mark files that have a mo...
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    RobElliott
    Apr 25, 2020

    Hi Michael, (pnthrzrule), yes we do this at our company. The JSON is below and subtracts 2 years (in milliseconds) from today's date. If the Modified date is older than that then the date is red, otherwise it's green:

     

    {
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "div",
  "txtContent": "@currentField",
  "style": {
    "color": "=if([$Modified] <= @now-63113904000, '#c64444', '#468757')"
  }
}

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

     

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jeremyELAM
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May 17, 2023

RobElliott Would I be able to flag items that have a date that is older than a week before today's date? For example, I have an item with today's date (5/17/2023). In one week from today, I want this item to be flagged, and I want this to happen for all items.

At them moment, the formatting that I have is "if the variable is before a fixed date," but I don't want the date to be fixed - I want it to always be a week before today's date, if that makes sense.

 

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RobElliott
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May 18, 2023

jeremyELAM you can't do that with the built-in column formatting, but if you format the column in advanced mode you can paste in the following JSON which, in this example, will make the background color green until it's older than 7 days before today when it changes to maroon.

 

 

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "div",
  "txtContent": "@currentField",
  "style": {
    "background-color": "=if(@currentField < @now-604800000, '#830909', '#409f93')",
    "color": "white",
    "padding-left": "10px"
  }
}

 

 

This is the result.

 

 

Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

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