Comments on: Good Stuff to Know About SharePoint Files, Folders, URLs, Sites and the Like

By: Ved

Ved — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:19:53 +0000

Did anybody come to know why “Hyphens” are not allowed in List/Library name. Why it is removed by SharePoint if used. On the other note, I see an inconsistency in this behavior. In one environment, it removes “Hyphen” in the document library name but when I check the same behavior in other environment it works fine. It doesn’t remove “Hyphen” in document library name. Strange!!!

By: Zubair Alexander

Zubair Alexander — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:08:36 +0000

I am not aware of any workaround to allow Link list to be more than 256 characters.

By: Tusar

Tusar — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:53:43 +0000

Is there any work around to allow Link list items to be more than 256 characters?

By: Zubair Alexander

Zubair Alexander — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:55:41 +0000

Phil,
I am glad I was able to save you some debugging time.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:35:10 +0000

Great post. While doing some SharePoint development, I hit this brick wall with a hyphen in a document library name and thought my code was wrong. Little did I know that this was by design. Thanks. You’ve saved me hours, if not days, of debugging time.