How to get List-Field’s information such as display name and static name map?

Summary

During the development of PowerShell Script or Power Automate Flow with REST calls you will need a Static Names of the List. The Display name of the list is not same as static name.

Please read here for more information about the Display Name Vs Static Name.

Step By Step Solution

To simplify let’s create a simple Manually Triggered flow. Using the REST API make a call to the get Fields information in JSON. Map using the Select action to get only required field properties. After that apply the Create HTML action to create nice tabular data to see the map.

Flow to extract the Static Name information
https://github.com/pankajsurti/PowerAutomateSamples/blob/main/Export-ListFields-Information_20210704172208.zip

You can download the sample Power Automate from the above URL or by clicking here.

Conclusion

I use this flow to get the information of the list to get the static names. I hope it is useful for you as well.

About Pankaj

I am a Developer and my linked profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajsurti/
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