Category Archives: Lists and Libraries

Document Library Folder Names: “Forms”

I recently stumbled upon this little bug by accident. If you create a folder called “Forms” in a document library, you won’t be able to re-name it or delete it directly. Backing up for a second, you can’t create a folder called “Forms” directly as a top-level folder in the library – the [...]

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Create Unique Keys Using Calculated Fields

This little trick is something that should have struck me long ago, but I just recently hit upon it. I had a situation where I needed to create a column in a list that looked up data from another list. Normally, lookup columns use the Title field as the text displayed in the [...]

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