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Why Is SharePoint’s Priority Column Free Text and Not a Choice Field?
While https://bluesite.consulting/en-us/articles/sharepoint-site-template-projecthome-review.html, I noticed something unusual in the work action tracker list—a column setting that seemed out of place. Specifically, the Priority column isn't set up as a typical choice column with selectable options. Instead, the available choices are entered as free text in a single text field (left image)
I saw this years ago in the old SharePoint. where options for a choice column are defined within a text field rather than as a standard list of choices (right image). Does anyone know why this might be happening or what could be causing this behavior?
The template comes with some JSON formatting pre-applied on the choice pills (icons in this case).
Because of that, the GUI based choice editor does not work from column settings pane. To still format the pills, you can go inside format this column option > switch to design mode and you can use the "normal" pills-designer.
Best, Dave
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i have created a Issue tracker list with the Microsoft default list template and have the same behaviour, but only in the column Priority, not in others like Status. I have never seen this behavior either, but I don't use the list templates and create my own custom lists.
When you create your own Priority column, you can configure it like you did a year ago.
Best, Dave
The template comes with some JSON formatting pre-applied on the choice pills (icons in this case).
Because of that, the GUI based choice editor does not work from column settings pane. To still format the pills, you can go inside format this column option > switch to design mode and you can use the "normal" pills-designer.
Best, Dave
Thank you DaveMehr365
Creating your own list or site templates is a good choice for large enterprises with people having expertise and the resources. I think some of Microsoft´s templates are quite useful - you sometimes just need to fix or update some thinks.
I´ve added this to the article https://bluesite.consulting/en-us/articles/sharepoint-site-template-projecthome-review.html#issue-tracker-list-quickfix
