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JSON format broken?
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?
Similar thread: Approval Status Column Suddenly Numeric - Due to Column Formatting?
Related Read: How to find the Internal name of columns in SharePoint Online?
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I am having exactly the same issue. I have checked multiple tenants where a similar JSON is used in a number of libraries and the same issue is show for all. Can we please get some feedback from Microsoft??
My post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/json-column-formatting-broken/m-p/2952937
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?
Similar thread: Approval Status Column Suddenly Numeric - Due to Column Formatting?
Related Read: How to find the Internal name of columns in SharePoint Online?
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ganeshsanap Jordaromera Thanks, I am not as skilled in JSON as i would like to be, so can you help with my code? The code i was using was as below. What would it change to, to meet the requirements of the new Moderationstatus changes?
"visibility": { "operator": "?", "operands": [ { "operator": "==", "operands": [ "[$_ModerationStatus]", "Pending" ] }, "visible", "hidden" ] }Hey WorkflowIQ thanks for pointing me to this thread and thanks ganeshsanap for the reply above, worked perfectly and no way I would have figured it out.
It would be helpful if Microsoft planned to have the documentation updated for when the change is pushed out....
Anyway, WorkflowIQ if you just replace [$_moderationStatus] with [$_moderationStatus.displayValue] in your code you should be good to go. That worked for me.
Thanks again for the heads up!
ganeshsanap Thanks thanks and thanks, this is the start point to solve the problem. Again: Thanks!
Jordaromera You're welcome. Glad it helped you!
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