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Hands-On Microsoft Lists

By : João Ferreira, Rene Modery
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Book Image

Hands-On Microsoft Lists

5 (1)
By: João Ferreira, Rene Modery

Overview of this book

Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible and powerful platform for creating custom data models. Hands-On Microsoft Lists is an easy-to-read guide for those who want to get started with Lists, as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and want to create custom and flexible Lists that are easily available through a web interface. This comprehensive introduction to Lists will show you how to get up to speed in no time with the help of practical guidance and examples. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll understand how to use and implement Microsoft Lists effectively. You’ll start by covering all the basic concepts that will help you to build your Microsoft Lists and get the most out of the platform. As you progress, you’ll explore how to customize Microsoft Lists layouts and forms. Later chapters will guide you through integrating Microsoft Lists with the Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical scenarios that you can use daily to improve the collaboration in your organization. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have learned how to create custom data models to improve the way your data is put together, managed, and consumed in your workplace.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Column formatting

Column formatting allows you to manipulate how data is displayed to the users, without you needing to change the values that have been stored for the formatted column in the list.

Formatting a column requires the user to have basic knowledge of HTML and JSON as Microsoft combined both to create the formatting languages available in Microsoft Lists. If you are not familiar with the web programming language, you can use the basic formatting options available in the Microsoft Lists interface.

Any user with permissions to create or manage views will be able to format columns in a list.

Supported column types

Formatting is possible in most of the columns, but you will find some column types where this option is not available.

The following table shows each column type and the supported formatting options. Columns that support WYSIWYG allow you to create basic formatting without the need to write code:

* Column formatting is only...