Siôn J. Lewis

Hide or show fields in New or Edit forms

PowerShell script to hide or display form fields
SharePoint Customise Form Menu

Microsoft has made it easier to customise “modern” SharePoint Online Lists and Libraries Forms natively.

But what do you do if you need to managing list is “classic” Form or the edit for option is just not available?

One option is to write a PowerShell script, see example below which will hide or show fields within New or Edit Forms.

This code and other scripts can be accessed in GitHub.

For more information on customising Modern SharePoint Forms, see these Microsoft articles:

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