Lists - Format Form JSON to get (People or Group)

Question

Hello,

I am trying to customize the header in my Microsoft List's form, and I cannot get the value for (People or Group) field through the JSON code.

In the following section:

...

 "children": [ 

                { 

                    "elmType": "div", 

                    "txtContent": "='Review Checklist for ' + [$Submittedby]"

This above is what I have now, and it doesn't pull the name from the form. I tried [$Submittedby.Email], [$Submittedby.DisplayName], [$Submittedby.sip] but they don't seem to pull any information.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

Hi @Bahaa86 ,

According to your description, the problem may be caused by not using the internal name of the column.

You can use the following steps to find the internal name of this column:

Click on Settings (gear) icon -->select List settings-->scroll down to the Columns section and click on the column name for which you want to find the internal name-->click on it-->go into column settings page like this:

Where column name (CheckoutUser) after Field= of the url is the internal name.

And then replace it in the JSON code to see if the problem is solved.

For more information, please refer to:

https://ganeshsanapblogs.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/how-to-find-the-internal-name-of-sharepoint-columns/

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If the problem persists, please provide more details about the event so I can test it in my environment.

Thank you for your support and understanding!

Update on 5/3/2023

I conducted a test and found that the column of Person and Group is indeed not displayed.

I tried to change the elmType from div to span, no luck.

As a workaround, it is recommended you change the column type of Submittedby from Person or Group to Single line of text. It can be worked fine.

And I will still look into this issue.

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Answer 2

Hi @Bahaa86 ,

After my research and testing, I found the way, it works for me. Add title after it to extract attributes, you can try it.

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"txtContent": "='Review Checklist for' + ' ' + [$Submittedby.title]"
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