SharePoint » Tips http://www.sharepointboris.net and Boris Gomiunik Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:45:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A quick way to get to know the internal name of the SharePoint Column http://www.sharepointboris.net/2010/02/the-quick-way-to-get-to-know-the-internal-name-of-the-sharepoint-column/ http://www.sharepointboris.net/2010/02/the-quick-way-to-get-to-know-the-internal-name-of-the-sharepoint-column/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:21:49 +0000 Boris Gomiunik http://www.sharepointboris.net/2010/02/the-quick-way-to-get-to-know-the-internal-name-of-the-sharepoint-column/ If you need to know the internal name of a SharePoint column (which can be pretty different from actual if you’re using spaces and latin characters, you can discover this very simple:

  1. Go to list’s settings and edit the properties of the field (on a sample below we’ll get to know the internal name of a "Business phone" column in a standard Contacts list:
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  2. In the URL of the "Change Column" page, look for "Field=…" at the end:
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  3. In the example above, the internal name is WorkPhone. But if your column name contains strange characters, like e.g. Hello%5FWorld%5Fx0020%5FColumn (which we would get if we created a "Hellp_World Column" column, type the following in the URL bar of your Web Browser:
    javascript:unescape(‘[your-field-name]‘)
    and press enter. You’ll get the internal name of the field:
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Why is internal column name good for? XSLT views code in SharePoint Designer, Querying SharePoint Web Services, custom scripts, when programming backend against a SharePoint list or list item,…

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