SP Reveal – My first published browser extension for SharePoint

Over the years, I’ve often found myself repeating the same steps when working with SharePoint lists: searching for internal column names, retrieving item URLs or IDs, checking API paths, or reopening the same forms just to confirm a detail. These actions are small on their own, but they can easily interrupt your work progress.

As a Power Platform consultant working regularly with Dataverse, I often rely on the Level Up for Dynamics 365/Power Apps extension (https://github.com/rajyraman/Levelup-for-Dynamics-CRM) to speed up my work. It provides a simple but highly effective set of tools for understanding and inspecting Dataverse forms. When I was working with SharePoint again, I quickly thought: I wish something like this existed for SharePoint Online as well.

That idea eventually led to creating the SP Reveal SharePoint extension, a lightweight tool that brings these technical details to the surface more efficiently.

Introducing the SP Reveal SharePoint Extension

SP Reveal is a lightweight browser extension that adds practical, developer‑focused tools on top of SharePoint Online list forms. Its goal is straightforward: make frequently used technical information easier to access.

Some of the features include:

  • Showing internal (logical) column names directly on the form
  • Copying item IDs, item URLs and API URLs
  • Copying list information such as the list GUID or API endpoint
  • Duplicating list items using the SharePoint REST API
  • Inspecting all fields of an item in a searchable dialog

Everything runs inside the browser, and nothing is stored or sent anywhere.


SP Reveal SharePoint extension popup with item actions

SP Reveal SharePoint extension shows internal column names

SP Reveal SharePoint extension all fields dialog

Why I built the SP Reveal SharePoint extension

The idea for the SP Reveal SharePoint extension came from trying to simplify the small steps that developers and power users repeatedly perform. Seeing how helpful Level Up for Dynamics 365/Power Apps is when working with Dataverse confirmed that a similar approach would also benefit the SharePoint community.

Publishing this extension is something I’m proud of. I’m not a developer by background, but drawing on years of functional SharePoint experience, I wanted to create a practical tool that could help others in their daily work as well.

Where to get it

SP Reveal is now available in the Microsoft Edge Add‑ons store:

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/sp-reveal/mpknkmeflipbbmdepeeijhojamiblfif

A Chrome Web Store version is currently under review and will be added once approved.

Closing Thoughts

Publishing this extension has been an interesting step, and I hope SP Reveal proves useful to others who work with SharePoint on a daily basis. There are still many small productivity challenges across SharePoint and the Power Platform, and creating this extension has shown me that a browser extension can be a practical way to address them.

It might lead to more extensions in the future, for both SharePoint and Power Platform scenarios, but that’s something I will explore over time.

Feedback, suggestions, and feature ideas are always welcome.

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