Countdown to due date in SharePoint 365 list

[kobi1991]

Hello!

I'm using a SharePoint 365 list as an action tracker. My list contains the due date. I would like to add a column that contains a count of days remaining to the due date. 

I tried the datedif function together with 'TODAY', but it does not work. I guess I need to have an additional column with today's date to use this one? Was hoping to create it using workflows but these were retired in SharePoint 365. Is there a way to do it differently?

Would much appreciate your help.  

[#2]

@kobi1991 

You could apply JSON Formatting:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "div",
  "txtContent": "=floor((Number(@currentField)-Number(Date((getMonth(@now)+1)+'.'+getDate(@now)+'.'+getYear(@now))))/(60*60*24*1000))+' day(s) remaining'"
}

Best Regards,

Sven

[#3]

@SvenSieverding 

Thank you, Sven! Apologies but I'm completely new at this - could you please explain where in the code I should put my 'due date' column? 

Karolina

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Hi @kobi1991 ,

sure. This is SharePoint Json list formatting code that formats a column.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/column-formatting

Got to you SharePoint View, select the header of your "Due Date" column and select "Column Settings->Format this Column"

Copy the Json Code here


You don't have to change the formula, as "@currentField" references to the selected Column.

Best Regards,
Sven

[#5]

Thank you so much, Sven! It works, but I'm wondering if there's a way to do it the way the 'Countdown' column corresponds to the 'Due date' column as I would like to have a view of the Due date itself, and when adding a new item the 'Countdown' column would populate itself.

Is it at all possible?

Thank you,
Karolina

[#6]

Hi @kobi1991 

You could create a calculated column "Countdown" of type "Date" with the formula

=[Due Date]

and then apply the formatting there. 

Then you have two columns with the same value, but one is displaying the date and the other one is displaying the countdown.

Best Regards,

Sven