SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

I just stumbled accross a handy little utility that is really handy during SharePoint development: Show List and ViewGUIDs.

Type a Site URL, and select “Display Lists Titles and Ids”. From the list of lists you can select a list GUID, and with right-click copy it to the List ID input field.

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After clicking “Display Views” you see the available list views. Again you can select a view guid, and with right-click copy it to the View input field.

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Select “Display Items” to display the list items in the view.

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With a click on “Display default List Attribute Names” de internal names of the fields in the list are displayed.

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Very useful if you don't have tools like SharePoint Explorer or SharePoint Inspector installed, or if you find those tools too large/slow/complex to get some GUIDs and name information fast.

12 Comments

  • Hey, Serge... (back to SharePoint, are you? it's still my life). This is a nice find! Sometimes the developers are not given access to production servers command line and this is helpful to troubleshoot remotely. Hope you are well!

  • This is an excellent tool. More handy than the Inspector or Explorer, since it uses web services.

    I was teaching myself the Web Services API and using Fiddler, I was able to figure out how you called everything. It saved me tons of time. Thanks!

  • Any chance of getting this source code on this one?

  • Any Source code available?

    pq

  • authentication failed error is been thrown. any advice.

    Bala

  • I find your Utility very useful but I can't use it against sites that use https
    it throws exceptions

    Any chance to improve or get the source code?

  • When I run the utility I am getting an Error like : the request failed with HHTp staus 401: Unautorized. Its not letting me run the Web Service.

  • Same issue: When I run the utility I am getting an Error like : the request failed with HtTp status 401: Unauthorized.

  • This is a great tool, it saves me tons of work, Thanks again Serge.

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