Sharepoint 2010 + Internal Field Name Max Length

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:05:27 +0000

Little reminder about something that has just kept me busy for the last hour or so - internal field names in SharePoint lists have a max length of 32 characters. SharePoint treats this a little bizarrely - it will create the column but then truncate the internal field name. Thus is you’re doing this programmatically - and then depending on the column existing with that particular field name, things will fall over. You’ll probably see an error like

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Sharepoint 2010 + Internal Field Name Max Length