After document upload, return to source page

Question

In SharePoint 2010, I have a Wiki page that includes a button. When the user clicks on it, they head to Upload.aspx for a document library to submit a document. Once finished, when they fill in column values and click "OK", usually they're then presented with the document they uploaded. I want them to go back to the original wiki page where they clicked the button.

Searching for related questions, I've found that a Source attribute can be added, the trouble is that this doesn't appear to be working. For example, when my button is linked this way:

<a href='(...long url...)/DocumentLibrary/Upload.aspx?Source=url_encoded_url_for_wiki_page'> (...) </a>

The behavior that I see is that post document upload, the user is returned to the Document Library default view, not the link I provided. Now, if Source is absent or blank, the user goes to the uploaded file itself, so clearly something is happening. I've tried both a fully-qualified URL, and just a relative path such as /sites/blahblah/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx, both with the same result.

What's going on with the Source parameter here?

Answer 1

Below is some of the reflectored code from upload.aspx. Notice that if the file is checked out it will redirect to the file itself. So you might need to make sure you don't have any required columns. Other than that it should use the source or the default view (see SPRedirectFlags.UseSource below). Since you are being redirected to the default view, my gut tells me that your source isn't quite correct or isn't making it to the page. Maybe use fiddler to check and verify that there aren't any redirects going on which is losing your source querystring.

if ((this.IsSimpleList && sPFile.Level != SPFileLevel.Checkout) || sPFile.Item == null)
{
    if (base.IsDialogMode)
    {
        if (this.IsSolutionCatalog && sPFile.Name != null && sPFile.Name.Length > 4 && sPFile.Name.Substring(sPFile.Name.Length - 4).ToLower(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) == ".wsp")
        {
            this.OnSubmitSolution(sPLongOperation, sPFile);
        }
        else
        {
            string serverRelativeUrl = sPFile.ServerRelativeUrl;
            string scriptLiteralToEncode = (serverRelativeUrl.IndexOf(".", StringComparison.Ordinal) > 0) ? SPUtility.MapToIcon(base.Web, serverRelativeUrl, string.Empty, IconSize.Size16) : "icgen.gif";
            string strScript = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "retVal = {{}};\r\n                                            retVal['newFileUrl'] = \"{0}\";\r\n                                            retVal['isFolder'] = \"false\";\r\n                                            retVal['newFileSize'] = {1};\r\n                                            retVal['newFileIcon'] = \"{2}\";\r\n                                            window.frameElement.commitPopup(retVal);", new object[]
            {
                SPHttpUtility.EcmaScriptStringLiteralEncode(serverRelativeUrl),
                sPFile.Length,
                SPHttpUtility.EcmaScriptStringLiteralEncode(scriptLiteralToEncode)
            });
            sPLongOperation.EndScript(strScript);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        sPLongOperation.End(this.RedirectUrl, SPRedirectFlags.Static | SPRedirectFlags.UseSource, this.Context, null);
    }
}
else
{
    sPLongOperation.End(this.GetEditFormUrl(sPFile), SPRedirectFlags.Default, this.Context, null, base.IsDialogMode ? "window.frameElement.overrideDialogResult(1 /*ok*/);" : null);
}