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O365 SharePoint List Column Names Corrupted
Lori Hanley This is unbelievable. This just happened to me in my SharePoint list and it is connected to PowerApps. An internal column name called "InternalStepNumber" was changed to "_x0076_gj5". This is cause for serious concern. Now in my PowerApps app, all my formulas reference these obscure internal column names and I am not able to tell what I'm looking at.
What are enterprise customers going to do when they start building apps and their naming conventions are built on sound, well thought out internal column names and Microsoft code changes the internal column names? What is Microsoft going to do?
Bill Kuhn How are you adding the columns? Are you using Quick Edit view and using the + symbol? If so, this would generate the internal columns as you describe.
Beau Cameron Ahhhh...that was it. I learn something new everyday, this one just happened to be in the "not fun" learning category.
Bill Kuhn ; Lori Hanley Tausif_Jamkhandi Beau Cameron
Well, from October 2018 to December 2020 and this has still not been fixed. I have just moved over to Office 365 from SharePoint on-Premise so was not aware of this problem until I created a list with 1,984 items! Tried to create a power automate workflow and a power BI report and now from reading your posts (Thank YOU) I have to create a new column and copy everything over into it.
When is Microsoft going to get their systems sorted!!
Beau Cameron Yup i have also noticed the same, If we create column being in Quick Edit, this type of weird internal name is stamped.
