[BUG] Set-PnPView is not working for Gallery Type View Formatting using Custom JSON

[rbkharade]

Reporting an Issue or Missing Feature

I am reporting a bug

Expected behavior

Set-PnPView should apply a custom formatting to existing modern SharePoint gallery type view.

Actual behavior

I am currently trying to apply a custom Json formatting to existing gallery type view. I first connect to my SharePoint site with Connect-PnPOnline (Tried Interactive, WebLogin , Default & App-only tokens approach). After running Set-PnPView with custom Json, command is getting executed successfully. But not able to get desired formatted view.

Steps to reproduce behavior

$JSONFormat = @"
{
"$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/tile-formatting.schema.json",
"formatter": {
"children": [
{
"elmType": "div",
"style": {
"border-radius": "2px",
"box-shadow": "0px 1.6px 3.6px 0 #24, 0px 0.3px 0.9px 0 #24",
"font-weight": "800",
"height": "92%",
"overflow": "hidden",
"padding-left": "16px",
"padding-top": "16px",
"width": "95%"
},
"txtContent": "[$Title]"
}
],
"elmType": "div"
},
"height": "250",
"width": "350"
}
"@

Try
{
#Connect to site
Connect-PnPOnline -URL $SiteURL -UseWebLogin
#Set the View Formatting
Set-PnPView -List $ListName -Identity $ViewName -Values @{"CustomFormatter" =$JSONFormat.ToString()}
Write-host "View Format Applied Successfully!" -foregroundcolor Green
}
Catch {
write-host "Error: $($_.Exception.Message)" -foregroundcolor Red
}

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

PnP.PowerShell - 1.11.0

Which operating system/environment are you running PnP PowerShell on?

• Windows

[rbkharade]

Hi @KoenZomers, can you please look into it?

[gautamdsheth]

Moving this to a discussion, most likely some issue with your formatting JSON.

Please check these links to properly format it:

https://pnp.github.io/script-samples/spo-list-formatting/README.html?tabs=pnpps

or

https://beaucameron.com/2020/06/01/json-column-formatting-name-cannot-begin-with-the-character/

[rbkharade]

Hi @gautamdsheth ,
Thank you for the reply.

I have checked the JSON for formatting issues . The JSON looks fine. I have applied the same JSON file manually where it is applying the formatting correctly.
You can test the same by following simple steps -

1. Creating a simple SharePoint list with default column Title .
2. Create a Gallery view.
3. Select view created in step 2 . Select Format Current View & copy paste above JSON file. It will apply the formatting.
4. But when tried to do the same thing using PnP PowerShell formatting is not getting applied.

[JelleC-GMI]

I have the same issue.
No problem with the List type view only not updating the gallery type view