CamelCase Naming

A SharePoint Online tutorial by Peter Kalmström

SharePoint iconWhen you create a new site, app, column or page, you need to give it a name. This name can be changed later, but the first name will always be kept in what is called the internal name.

Internal SharePoint names should not have spaces. That is why you sometimes see irritating extra characters in URLs when the name has a space. These characters are added automatically by SharePoint to avoid a space, but using CamelCase naming will give better URLs.

CamelCase naming is when you write two separate words together without a space and use capital first letters in both words. SharePoint is a good example.

When you use the modern experience, SharePoint removes spaces in app and column names and in automatically created URLs. In other URLs the spaces can be visible, but spaces can still create problems, for example when you use SharePoint names in programming.

In this tutorial, Peter Kalmström shows how you can have both correct internal names, nice looking URLs and good app names. He uses an app as example.
  1. Open the settings gear and click on 'Add an app'.
  2. Add any app.
  3. Type the name in CamelCase that you want to give to your library app and click on Create.
  4. Open the newly created app.
Now you have a good URL without spaces, but the app name might not be what you want. To change it, do like this. (The URL will not be changed.)
  1. Open the list/library settings.
  2. In the Settings page, click on the link List name description and navigation.
  3. Change the name and click on Save.





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