Field class

SharePoint Online

Represents a field in a list on a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web site.

System.Object
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientObject
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Field
      

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll)

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A field is an element of a list or content type schema that specifies a property that is tracked for a list item. A field has an Internal Name, which specifies an identifier for the field. A field internal name is unique among other fields within a list and cannot contain spaces. A field has an Id, which is a GUID.A field has a specified field type. A field also contains state information for settings and additional metadata specified by the field type.

This code example gets a specified field, creates a description for the field, and displays the field title and new description.

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using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePointFoundation.Samples
{
    class FieldExample
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            string siteUrl = "http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection";

            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);
            Web site = clientContext.Web;
            List taskList = site.Lists.GetByTitle("Tasks");

            FieldCollection collField = taskList.Fields;
            Field oneField = collField.GetByInternalNameOrTitle("Title");
            oneField.Description = "MyNewFieldDescription";
            oneField.Update();
            
            clientContext.Load(collField);
            clientContext.Load(oneField);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

            string fieldInfo = "Field Title: " + oneField.Title + "\n" + 
               "Description: " + oneField.Description + "\n";
            Console.WriteLine(fieldInfo);

        }

    }
}

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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