SharePoint Lists overdue date shade cell

Hi folks, I'm muddling trough with SharePoint and would love help with something that's been a pain for days! I have a List for an Issue tracker and a column for "Date reported" what I would lo...

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Rob_Elliott

May 09, 2025

MrDavidGP you can do this with the following JSON:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "div",
  "txtContent": "@currentField",
  "style": {
    "background-color": "=if(@currentField < @now && @currentField > addDays(@now, -5), 'teal', if(@currentField <= addDays(@now, -5) && @currentField > addDays(@now, -10), 'orange', if(@currentField <= addDays(@now, -10), 'red', 'white')))",
    "color": "=if(@currentField <= addDays(@now, -5) && @currentField > addDays(@now, -10), 'black',  'white')",
    "padding-left": "4px"
  }
}

Rob
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Rob_Elliott

Silver Contributor

May 09, 2025

MrDavidGP you can do this with the following JSON:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "div",
  "txtContent": "@currentField",
  "style": {
    "background-color": "=if(@currentField < @now && @currentField > addDays(@now, -5), 'teal', if(@currentField <= addDays(@now, -5) && @currentField > addDays(@now, -10), 'orange', if(@currentField <= addDays(@now, -10), 'red', 'white')))",
    "color": "=if(@currentField <= addDays(@now, -5) && @currentField > addDays(@now, -10), 'black',  'white')",
    "padding-left": "4px"
  }
}

Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

MrDavidGP
Copper Contributor
May 09, 2025
Hi Rob,

Thanks so much as that worked a treat, also the white text was a bonus, thanks for doing that as well.

I'm slowly buy mostly trial and error and loads of Youtube (experts in SP) videos.

David

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