Column formattingSharePoint Online

Item Version History

This sample demonstrates how to build a button to display the version history of an item in SharePoint Online.

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Shared by Dan Toft
Updated May 12, 2023

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Use your list's internal column names and replace any tenant-specific URLs or flow IDs. Formatting is presentation, not a way to secure data.

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{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "a",
  "attributes": {
    "href": "=@currentWeb+'/_layouts/15/Versions.aspx?list={ LIST ID }&ID='+[$ID]",
    "target": "_blank",
    "data-interception": "off"
  },
  "style": {
    "text-decoration": "none"
  },
  "children": [
    {
      "elmType": "span",
      "attributes": {
        "iconName": "History"
      },
      "style": {
        "margin-right": "5px"
      }
    },
    {
      "elmType": "span",
      "txtContent": "Version history"
    }
  ]
}

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Summary

Since document sets rely on a different style of version history (captured versions) - sometimes you want to see how the metadata has changed over time, using the Versions.aspx page over the DocSetVersions.aspx works awesome, but this is also really useful just to make the version history for someone.

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If you use this sample, you need to set the LIST ID. If not set, the link will not work.

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This format can be applied to any column type, I used a calculated field with the ="" formula.

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Solution	Author(s)
generic-item-version-history.json	Dan Toft

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Version	Date	Comments
1.0	May 12, 2023	Initial release

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