Enabling IE Dev Tools Settings if disabled by GPO

Sometimes Network admin policies just get over the top and especially for bods like us who require to have the IE Developer Tools enabled for script debugging etc.

Firstly check whether these 2 registry settings been set 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IEDevTools

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IEDevTools

If they have been to 1, set them to 0 to disable these disabling keys ;-)

However , it is highly likely a Network GPO policy is overriding this setting therefore the trick is if you have admin rights on your local machine.  Create a local user on the desktop machine.  Then assign it as an administrator locally.  

Then login to the desktop eg .\user then password.

Then you should be able to open gpedit.msc from the run command.

Then check this setting below.

Computer Configuration -> Administrative templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Toolbars -> Turn Off Developer Tools = Set to Disable.  

Restart all IE instances and the F12 developer tools under Tools menu should be activated again.

Space in Field Names

I think numerous people have mentioned this but it still stumped me for a while when I was trying to code a CAML query in SharePoint where I needed to get de-reference a field that had a space in it.

The field was name "A Type" and because of space or any other unsuitable characters, it will set it as such in its internal field name.

You can always find out what its internal name is by going to the List settings and columns, right click on the field hit properties and in the dialog window's look in the bottom of the Address URL property.

It will show something like this for "A Type" that is "A%5Fx0020%5FType"

Using A%5Fx0020%5FType in the JQuery code will not work as instead 

%dF needs to be underscore

Therefore, it should become A_x0020_Type in the field referencing code.

eg

 <viewFields> \
                 <ViewFields> \
                          <FieldRef Name='Title' /> \
                          <FieldRef Name='A_x0020_Type' /> \
                 </ViewFields> \
 </viewFields> \

And when using ows to get the xml nodes returned.

$(this).attr("ows_A_x0020_Type")

Thanks for this post to point me into the right direction.

http://abstractspaces.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/sharepoint-column-names-internal-name-mappings-for-non-alphabet/

I was scratching my head for a while.

To avoid this, never use space, semi colon or non alphanumeric characters when naming fields. Use underscore for space and this problem just gets side stepped.