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I need to show the description of column as a tooltip when a user hover a mouse on a column, I am doing this based on Adding custom hover text using json to a SharePoint list column

But I need to enter the description manually rather than reading the description of the column that I put earlier for that column in the Description textbox.

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If I change "txtContent": "[$Description]", to "txtContent": "This is the desciption", it works fine, is there any way to fix the previous issue and get the description rather than entering a new description here as txt enter image description here

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    Please note that [$Decription] in the example is a separate column, and hovering on the [Title] column values is showing values from the [$Description] column. As I understood your requirements, you need to show the Description, which is meta data, of column [Name]. There's a way to show column's meta data. However, my testing didn't work for "Description", but worked for "DisplayName", that is, [!Project.DisplayName] worked but [!Project.Description] did not worked. Here [Project] is a custom column, and you can refer meta data in JSON using a ! char
    – Matiur Rahman
    Nov 28, 2020 at 19:32
  • Thank you, I realized the Prj.Description vs meta description in the middle of trying the approach you suggested in the previous answered example. So, I was trying to get the meta data description as you highlighted and also shown by the above screenshots to avoid any confusion
    – Mohsen Sichani
    Nov 28, 2020 at 22:00

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Based on MS JSON reference guide at here, we should be able to show meta data in column formatting.

[!FieldName]

In column and view formatting, you can refer to any field's metadata by specifying the internal name of the field surrounded by square brackets and preceded by a exclamation mark: [!InternalName]. Currently field's display name is available in this metadata, and can be accessed using DisplayName property: [!SalesLead.DisplayName].

However, it didn't work for me for the Description. My testing worked for [!Project.DisplayName], but didn't work for [!Project.Description] (here, Project is a custom column).

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  • thx a lot, based on your description, So, I guess I have to manually type the description in two different places: JSON formatting and the "Description" of the column
    – Mohsen Sichani
    Nov 28, 2020 at 22:03
  • I also checked the src code for both view and when we are editing the column properties to see whether I can see the internal name of Description, no success, when in editing mode, I was able to see a derived version of description but "txtContent": "[!Project_x0020_Name.__description__]" did not work too –
    – Mohsen Sichani
    Nov 28, 2020 at 23:57
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As far as I know, there's no way to get the column description in JSON column formatting. You have to manually type the description in the json code.

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  • thx Michael, upvoted, thx for confirming
    – Mohsen Sichani
    Nov 30, 2020 at 18:21

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