I got a requirement from my client to extract email from a SharePoint person or group field. You can do this using JSON in SharePoint.

In this tutorial, I will explain how to use JSON to retrieve an email address from a person or group field in a SharePoint Online list.

To extract the email address from a people picker column of a SharePoint list, you can use Power Automate or JSON formatting.

Here, you can see that I have a SharePoint Online list as “Employee Information”; it has a person column as Employee Name.

Based on that column, I will show you how to apply JSON formatting to retrieve email addresses from the person column by creating an additional column.

Get an Email Address from a SharePoint Person Column using JSON

Follow the steps below to get an email address from a person or group column in a SharePoint list using a JSON statement.

• Open a SharePoint list where you need to retrieve email addresses from the person column.
• Now, click on +Add column -> Select Single line of Text -> Click on Next button.

• On the Create a Column page, give a Name for the column and click on Save.

• Now, click on the column header of an Employee Email, Select Column settings, and click on Format this column.

• In the Format column property pane, click on the Advanced mode link.

• In the Format columns, I have applied the following JSON code to retrieve an email address.
  • EmployeeName is the internal name of a people picker column.

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
  "elmType": "div",
  "txtContent": "[$EmployeeName.email]"
}

• Now, you can see that email addresses have been retrieved from the person column in a SharePoint list, as shown below:

This is how to get an email address from a SharePoint list person column using JSON Condition.

I hope you now know how to retrieve an email address from a SharePoint person or group field column using JSON code.

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Preeti Sahu

Preeti Sahu is an expert in Power Apps and has over six years of experience working with SharePoint Online and the Power Platform. She is the co-author of Microsoft Power Platform: A Deep Dive book. As a Power Platform developer, she has worked on developing various tools using Power Apps and Power Automate. She also makes Microsoft 365 videos and shares them on YouTube.