Customize child list columns in Modern SharePoint forms

Quite often, you might need access to another list from your SharePoint form. Let’s say, you’re managing a project and want to track all the related tasks, or you might want to upload some project documents to a related library.

Child list with grouping, totals and inline editing

Now, these cases were already doable with our Plumsail Forms product. Yet, it was not possible to customize the presentation further — only default list views, filtering and grouping were available. That’s all fine and dandy, but there are cases that might require additional configuration.

For example, you might want to have some extra functionality. Let’s say you want to email a user to whom a task is assigned to. Well, now you can add an email button to a column, and you can even preset the default email message:

Send an email on button click

How about opening an item linked with a lookup in dialog? Now that’s also possible:

Lookup opened a dialog

And of course, you can customize the appearance of a column. Set number column to represent progress bar:

Progress bar instead of number

Or set due date color to red, if it was passed without the task being complete:

Tasks not completed in time

Now, these are just some of the examples we have described in our article on List or Library column customization.

All customizations at once

You can combine multiple customizations at once and be as creative as necessary, almost anything can be adjusted or completely swapped — only you decide how far you’ll take it!