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Sarah82
Nov 06, 2023Copper Contributor
Custom number format with leading letters and numbers
Hi, I'm tying to create a SharePoint Online List as an incident register. I'm want to have an Incident ID column formatted to display the number like such: INC001, INC002 INC003 and so on. I can...
- Nov 06, 2023
Adding to answer by Rob_Elliott:
If you have some rows with no value in this number column, above JSON will return value like INC000 for all rows:
So instead of it, use this JSON:
{ "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json", "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "=if(@currentField, 'INC'+padStart(toString(@currentField),3,'0'), '')" }
Output:
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Rob_Elliott
Nov 06, 2023Bronze Contributor
Sarah82 you're nearly there, use this:
{
"elmType": "div",
"txtContent": "='INC'+padStart(toString(@currentField),3,'0')"
}
Rob
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Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP UK (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)