With a custom view formatting you can completely transform the look and feel of a list making it work almost as a standalone application.
If you have done all the steps explained in the first part of this article now it is time to improve the layout and the interaction of users with your To Do list.
The Microsoft ecosystem has plenty of options for users to store their tasks, Microsoft To Do, Planer and the new Tasks application available in Microsoft Teams are all valid options.
Microsoft Lists on the other hand can be also an option, however there are no readymade templates from Microsoft to create a simple To Do list with an appealing layout.
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View formatting allows you transform the way data is displayed in a list using a mix of JSON and HTML, with both together you will be able to create new layouts and even new functionalities for your lists.
Despite all this power there is a known bug that prevents the list from showing more than 30 items once the formatting is applied to a list view.
While working with Microsoft lists the other day came up with a solution to create a custom list view to display the items created during the current week, before jumping into this article I recommend you have a look to the original post here, to get familiar with this concept.
In this post I’ll show how to format the view group headers using a custom list formatting that shows the day of the week and the number of items created.
The group items feature in Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists allows you to group items with the same value in a specific column.
Groups in Microsoft Lists are applied to a view and are displayed as collapsible elements with the group name and the number of items being displayed in the header of the section.
Deleting a date column value in Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists without using the item form is an impossible task as this column type needs to receive a date in a specific format and does not accept empty values.
With column formatting however it is possible to workaround this limitation and hide the date when it is not needed, in this article I’ll show you a possible solution for it.
Creating views in Microsoft Lists is a straightforward process and it can be done using the UI to apply filters, group elements or even order the items as you wish. Despite the simplicity you can go a step further and use expressions and functions to display your data in different formats and create advanced views.
In this article you will learn how to create a view to filter the items created in the current week from Monday to Sunday.
Microsoft has released Microsoft Lists for iOS devices in the beginning of the year and this week at Ignite a new version compatible with Android devices just got announced.
The mobile version of Microsoft Lists gives you access to data while on the go with an interface adjusted to the small screens making the interaction with data a pleasant experience.
Microsoft Lists, an evolution of SharePoint lists was released with several predefined templates that can be used as a starting point when creating a new list. Despite including templates this new platform was missing the list template feature that was available in the classic world of SharePoint.
List templates in Microsoft Lists can only be created by the global administrator and the process is only available using PowerShell.
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