I am working on a sharepoint server 2016 on-premise. I have the following scenario, which I can not understand:-
- Using the UI from "Site settings" >> "Site columns". I created a new site column named
ITDepartmentOwner
. - Now I got a new site column with the following properties:-
- Display & Internal Name =
ITDepartmentOwner
.
- Display & Internal Name =
- now using the UI I rename the site column to be
IT Department Owner
by adding white spaces between the words. - now the column properties are as follow:-
- Internal name did not change =
ITDepartmentOwner
- Display name =
IT Department Owner
.
- Internal name did not change =
now I do understand that modifying a column name will only affect its display name while the internal name will not get changed, and this is fine. but the problem I am facing is that, when I try to rename my site column to be Owner
, I got the following error:-
So I am not sure why I got this error. Now SharePoint should allow having duplicate Display names, but not duplicate Internal names... and in my case I want to rename my site column to be Owner.. but since I have another column with this name I got the error.. but still the 2 columns have different internal names.. so I am not sure what I can do ? now one way I find to fix this temporary is to rename the column at the list level from IT Department Owner
to Owner
.. where I did not get any error message.. but still I want this renaming to be done at the site level...
so can anyone adivce on the above problem please?