The Difference between Sharepoint Document Title and Document Name

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A colleague of mine developed a workflow which auto set title to document. With this workflow,as he put it, he can optimize the research and lookup things like that. However I think it can be done just by name of document. There are must be some kind of story behind this. Could someone help me here? Thanks!

Answer

Rex M picture Rex M · Feb 6, 2009

"Title" is a field on the entity in the database. "Name" is what uniquely identifies the SPFile underlying the document. So you can think of Title as pretty arbitrary; you can change it just like you would change any other property (description, etc.) but if you change the Name, it is akin to moving the file. Names must be unique in folders/webs.

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