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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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Danie365 Thanks for the help, i really appreciate it. I still can't get it to work though. I pasted your code exactly, just adding my correct flow id, and replacing the single quotes (as they paste a different character if copying from here). Do you have any other suggections on what could be wrong? Thanks again, screenshot below.
WorkflowIQ are the "txtContent" and "background-color" missing a set or parenthesisssssssss (no idea how to spell the plural of that!)...
I'm just brainstorming now as my lack of code knowledge is going to become apparent...
but maybe try this...
{
"$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
"elmType": "button",
"customRowAction": {
"action": "executeFlow",
"actionParams": "='{\"id\": \"' + if([$ReviewInProgress]=='','xxxxxxxx',if([$ReviewInProgress]=='No','xxxxxxxxx',' ')) + '\"}'"
},
"txtContent": "=if(([$ReviewInProgress]=='Approval'),'Sent for Approval','Send for Approval')",
"style": {
"background-color": "=if(([$ReviewInProgress]=='Approval'),'Orange','Green')",
"color": "white",
"border-radius": "20px",
"border-style": "solid",
"border-color": "white",
"border-width": "4px",
"visibility": "=if(([$_moderationStatus.displayValue] == ‘Pending’),’visible’,’hidden’)"
}
}
WorkflowIQ Great, glad it worked you!
you can use either one to show/hide the element. But, I prefer "display: none" property as it completely removes the element from DOM. Check this for more information: What is the difference between visibility:hidden and display:none?
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- I was on SP online by the way
ganeshsanap Thanks, that worked! I used "visibility" but Display seemed to work also. I am very grateful for your help. This has taken so much of my time trying to work out.
WorkflowIQ Try using:
"visibility": "=if([$_ModerationStatus.displayValue] == 'Pending', 'visible', 'hidden')"OR instead of "visibility", use this:
"display": "=if([$_ModerationStatus.displayValue] == 'Pending', 'block', 'none')"Use [$_ModerationStatus.displayValue] with capital M.
Also, are you using SharePoint online or SharePoint 2019?
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Danie365 LOL, I have no idea either about the plural, i usually give in and Google it 🙂
The rest of the code is OK, i tested by just replacing
"visibility": "=if(([$_moderationStatus.displayValue] == ‘Pending’),’visible’,’hidden’)"
with
"visibility": "visible"
and everything else works. (the button i am trying to conditionally hide always shows though of course)
I also tried dropping one of the parenthesisss so that is is:
"visibility": "=if([$_moderationStatus.displayValue]=='Pending','visible','hidden')"Still no luck....... I'll keep looking and post back here when I have something that works.Thanks again!!