Forum Discussion
Renaming columns -> new name not showing for site members
Update July 2020:
I still had this issue with new sites and almost gave up on troubleshooting. I had a brainstorm with another SharePoint minded person and it became clear that the language template might be a thing.
When you visit a website, the language in which the browser is set determines the language in which the content is displayed. If the website offers content based on language of course. With modern browsers you have the option to support multiple languages, like spell check and browser interface. My native language is Dutch, but I set my browser to English to read Microsoft Docs in English (the machine translation is absolutely horrible).
Now back to SharePoint. I create a site, make content types and columns, create libraries and lists and all that in my English browser. Most of my colleagues all have browsers with their interface set to Dutch. And here's where things go wrong. All Dutch visitors see the columns in their old ("ugly") name. When I change the user's UI language to English, *poof* all columns are in the correct "fancy" names.
So in conclusion, I have to rename all columns in two different languages, and more if we want to support other languages for our visitors as well....
I think, I ran into another strange symptom of this bug. The problem itself is the same. I create new columns without blanks and special characters, then rename them afterwords. Never had an issue with that, up until this one new list. It surfaces in three different ways:
1. Like all the others here, new colums are shown only with their first name. Renaming is not displayed
2. Now it gets strange. I also renamed the very first column "Title", then renamed it again, as i repurposed that column. Guess what, it sticks to the first rename now all the time.
3. Really strange. Same for the list name. Left out the blank initially, renamed it with blank. Gets only displayed without blank.
So testing with other colleagues might also hint into the language/regional settings corner. I am German working on an english laptop. But my fellow Germans on german laptops have the same issue. My IT support from India does not have the issue. Couldn´t get a real pattern here.
BUT what I could figure out: Once I clear the browser cache, I get all the renamed column names. Once I hit refresh, all the initial names are back. Also, when opening the list, for a very very brief moment the correct names are displayed, then instantly overwritten with the initial name. Same behavior on Edge and Firefox. So it is somehow down to the Cache, but I have no better means then clearing it. Any idea?
- After some testing with our IT support it all pointed to the cache. Some more digging here let me to thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/sharepoint-caching-problems-with-lists/m-p/2870798
Disabling Offline Availability of the client is doing the trick for me.eis33: Good find, unfortunately the OneDrive settings that are referred to in that post, are not available in Windows 11 clients (where OneDrive is a part of the OS instead of a stand-alone app)
