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Sharepoint is problematic when it comes to giving users control over internal column names. ie. None.

When it comes to mapping display names to internal names, sharepoint;

Randomly (to me) appends a 0 to some field names
It deals poorly with spaces (wouldnt replacing prohibited characters with one or more underscores make more sense?)
Changes internal names when a column is renamed
Seems to do things differently in the lists table editor cf. sharepoint
When a list is created using excel import it creates field names of the form field0, field1, etc.
Doesnt display internal names (surely a tooltip to display it could be implemented)- you only find out when looking at autosuggest in powerapps formulas.

This has been a longstanding issue- Creating all sorts of unreadable and unmanageable code in powerapps.

Since, it appears, sharepoint doesnt have any intention of allowing users control over mapping between internal and display names- is it possible for powerapps to accept either internal or display column names in formulas and map those back to the internal name when it makes calls to the DB?

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