{"id":179,"date":"2016-04-11T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edcortes.ph\/?p=681"},"modified":"2021-07-10T03:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T03:31:45","slug":"how-to-rename-id-field-in-a-sharepoint-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"How to rename ID Field in a Sharepoint List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Requirement: Rename ID field in a SharePoint list! We had a list with ID column added to the view to provide unique auto number feature. User wants to rename ID field to &#8220;Change Request Number&#8221; as it sounds more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edcortes.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rename-ID-field-in-SharePoint.png\" alt=\"rename ID field in SharePoint\" width=\"665\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solution: Hidden columns such as &#8220;ID&#8221;, &#8220;Workflow Status&#8221; are not providing Edit features directly from SharePoint web UI and they don\u2019t even appear on SharePoint list settings page.<\/p>\n<p>So, use this simple trick to rename any hidden column such as ID:<br \/>\nGo to List settings page \u00a0and\u00a0Pick any column such as &#8220;Title&#8221;. You\u2019ll get Edit Column page.<br \/>\nIn the URL, Change the Field parameter from &#8220;Title&#8221; to &#8220;ID&#8221; and Hit Enter. E.g.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/demo.crescent.com\/_layouts\/15\/FldEdit.aspx?List=%7BB9BED485%2D889D%2D49D9%2DBDC1%2DD78EB4E06EB9%7D&#038;Field=Title<br \/>\nTo<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/demo.crescent.com\/_layouts\/15\/FldEdit.aspx?List=%7BB9BED485%2D889D%2D49D9%2DBDC1%2DD78EB4E06EB9%7D&#038;Field=ID<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSource: SharePoint Diary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requirement: Rename ID field in a SharePoint list! We had a list with ID column added to the view to provide unique auto number feature. User wants to rename ID field to &#8220;Change Request Number&#8221; as it sounds more appropriate. Solution: Hidden columns such as &#8220;ID&#8221;, &#8220;Workflow Status&#8221; are not providing Edit features directly from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-notes","category-sharepoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}