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I have run into a problem with SharePoint that is frustrating my users to no end. I have a large list (>5000 rows) that users can arrive at by clicking links formatted like this

http://my.farm.com/mfg/MySite/Lists/PLOT%20Compliance%20Exception/OpenIssues.aspx?FilterField1=Area&FilterValue1=DRY%20ETCH

However once they click on that and get to the view, they are not able to add any more filter options manually. If they click on a column (all the columns are indexed) header they get a cryptic error message like this:

Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131904<br/><br/>Correlation ID:abc5ef9c-08bb-d0a2-a96a-efc6c7c0418d<br/>

However, if I visit the same base view (show below) without any filters in the URL I can then manually add all the filters that were in the previous URL. The base view always returns < 5000 rows so the large list limit shouldn't affect it.

http://my.farm.com/mfg/MySite/Lists/PLOT%20Compliance%20Exception/OpenIssues.aspx

Is there any way to craft a URL that will filter the view AND allow the user to modify it further without triggering errors?

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  • Are they trying to add filters to the column "Area" or is it any column? Have you tried to access the same url as a sitecollection administrator? Mar 5, 2015 at 14:09
  • You should check the correlation ID in the logs Mar 5, 2015 at 14:32
  • I am an SCE and get the same errors. I don't think I have access to the logs, but I'll ask around.
    – Matt
    Mar 6, 2015 at 17:18

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I eventually solved this by adding this to the link

#InplviewHashfda8118a-f32f-48f1-8782-f48da3428ba7=

With causes SharePoint to remember the settings as the user adds more filters, where fda8118a-f32f-48f1-8782-f48da3428ba7 is the list id. So a complete url would be

http://my.farm.com/mfg/TrecMan/Lists/PLOT%20Compliance%20Exception/OpenIssues.aspx#InplviewHashfda8118a-f32f-48f1-8782-f48da3428ba7=FilterFields1%3DStatus-FilterValues1%3DAssigned%253B%2523Created-FilterField2%3DArea-FilterValue2%3DWET%2520PROCESS

If I remember correctly the parameters also needed to be double encoded which made things extra annoying.

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