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Jun 24, 2026

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How do I get quick actions to show up in Gallery view for a list?

Hello, I'm creating a sharepoint list of employees. I create quick actions for sending an employee a teams message or an email, and they work fine in list view. However, in gallery view they don't sh...

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virendrak
Jul 08, 2026
I think it's failing because Actions is not a Person field, so @currentField refers to the Actions column itself and has no email property.
Can you please try to add...

"href": "='mailto:' + [$Contact.email]"

yoink

Tin Contributor

Jun 28, 2026

You can add a button with 'mailto' link or probably emulate whatever your column format is in list view by customizing your gallery view (card) format JSON.

I'm not yet able to post links, but search for Microsoft's 'Learn Gallery Formatting' or check 'PnP List Formatting' to see what's possible.

Stephen-14853

Tin Contributor

Jul 07, 2026

Thank you, and apologies for the late response. I did some research and was able to add a button with a link. However, when I try attaching a mailto link ("'mailto:' + [@currentField.email]"), the entire gallery disappears. Note: I added a new field "Actions" to test out custom formatting with, that's why it's under Actions instead of Contact now.

This is the JSON I added:

    {
      "elmType": "a",
      "txtContent": "Email",
      "attributes": {
        "class": "sp-card-defaultClickButton",
        "role": "presentation",
        "target": "_blank",
        "href": "='mailto:' + [currentField.email]"
      },
      "style": {
        "padding": "5px",
        "height": "20px",
        "margin-right": "3px",
        "margin-botton": "3px",
        "font-size": "15px",
        "border-radius": "2px",
        "border": "none",
        "font-weight": "600",
        "background-color": "#0078d4",
        "cursor": "pointer",
        "color": "white",
        "text-decoration": "none",
        "text-align": "center",
        "width": "40px"
      }
    }

virendrak
Steel Contributor
Jul 08, 2026
I think it's failing because Actions is not a Person field, so @currentField refers to the Actions column itself and has no email property.
Can you please try to add...

"href": "='mailto:' + [$Contact.email]"
- Stephen-14853
  Tin Contributor
  Jul 08, 2026
  This worked! My Person field is named Teams so I used [$Teams.email] instead, but this worked perfectly.
  In case anyone was wondering, I also made a button that opens a new teams chat with a given person. It has the same JSON except for the href:
  "attributes": { "href": "='https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=' + [$Teams.email]", "target": "_blank" },
  
  Thank you so much!