Color Entire Row, Not just column about list-formatting HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks for the feedback. This is a totally reasonable feedback, and we are working on a "Row Formatter" feature to accomplish this. I don't have an ETA for this feature right now, but this is something we're actively working on. Highlighting an entire row with a class or set of styles depending on the value of one or more fields in the view is one of the main scenarios we're working towards with this feature.

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Column Formatting is intended for single column formats only, so outside of johnnyshield's answer, there isn't a way to accomplish this with column formatting. johnnyshield's answer would work in very specific circumstances but has a few drawbacks:

• Your view could only contain field types that support column formatting
• You aren't able to recreate the OOTB view for several field types (hyperlink, person, etc.) using column formatting so you would lose some functionality
• Maintaining that solution would be tedious and error-prone

This isn't a criticism of johnnyshield since there isn't a better answer when it comes to column formatting across entire rows.

This can technically be done, however, with a Field Customizer (SharePoint Framework Extension) but requires you to manipulate the OOTB listview which isn't generally a great idea since there is no guarantee that markup/styles/etc. will not change and you may cause conflicts with other list features. Not only that, but this requires you to develop and deploy a package which is a large part of what column formatting helps us avoid.

This sounds like a good addition for User Voice. If you post it there, let me know and I'll upvote it.

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They showed the row formatter at SPC, and it’s coming later this year. Expect it to be similar to the column formatter, with a JSON schema. I’m hoping there will be a built in UI by then to make the basic stuff easier.

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I don't really get how they don't already have some kind of basic in-web UI
thing for the JSON column formatting stuff

@thechriskent has already put an SPFX web part together that does what I think you're talking about. You can find the project here and the SPPKG file here.

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This is possible, but you'll need to apply similar formatting to each column, referring to the column name in square brackets. e.g. [$ColourThisRow].

You will make the rollout & maintenance easier if [$ColourThisRow] is a yes/no calculated column, so you can copy and paste relatively simple JSON code across all the columns.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/column-formatting#fieldname

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Anything new on this front? Got a user asking for this exact behavior in SharePoint.

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I'm going to close this issue since View Formatting will be released soon and solves this issue. View Formatting allows you to specify a formatter (very similar to the Column Formatter syntax) directly to individual list views. In your formatter you can specify a rowFormatter property that gives you total control over how rows are rendered.

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