Chrome extension - SharePoint Dev Tools

Learn how to get a list of columns including their display- and internal name


There are several Chrome extensions that makes life a little easier when working with SharePoint.

SharePoint Dev Tools is a tool, that I use to compare the Display Name with the Internal Name, and we can even get the type of the column.

If you are working with JSON formatting, or on a list with many columns, this is a good way to get a good overview of all the columns available.

If you are looking for a single internal name of a single column, the fastest way is to sort by or filter by that column, and grab the internal from the URL, but I still had many use cases where this extensions was helpful.

Here is an example where I have sorted by column, so that I can grab the internal name from the URL

How to use the extension

When you have downloaded the extension, go to your SharePoint site, click on the extension icon and select Lists & Document Libraries

In the search panel, make sure that only to URL to your site it written, otherwise you won’t get any hits (here is room for improvements for the tool), so your URL should be

https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yourpagename

Now we will have a selection, of all of the available libraries and lists on your site.

Select the relevant list, and now we can compare all of the internal names, their display names, and even the type

A wonderful tool that I have found myself using in many occasions 👍


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