Questions tagged [links]
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File Explorer Links Not Opening From SharePoint Online
Some of our SharePoint sites have links to content on our networks shared folders. For some users the links don't open, the browser just hangs. This happens on SharePoint Online sites. The same ...
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How to add a mailto link or button to modern sharepoint page
I am trying to add a mailto link or button to a modern SharePoint online page. I want such that when the link is clicked, it will launch Microsoft Outlook or the email client. I have tried using the ...
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Content Query Web Part - Change Content Type upon link opening?
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I'm trying to open the links that come up from my Content Query Web Parts. However, I'm having a problem which I'll now explain:
In my list, I have four content types - ...
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SPO - Get file by URL (generated by “Get Link”)
Is it possible to get document from SharePoint Online document library by link URL, that is generated from UI with "Get link" functionality in PowerShell?
Link example: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/...
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Team Calendars with their own links
We have multiple teams that use sharepoint and each team wants to have their own calendar with their own links. However, when I add those links to the top of the page, they also appear on EVERY page ...
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How do I create direct links to external files that don't have to be downloaded, and are not automatically altered in SharePoint?
Basically, I want to make a link to a file located on an external server. Here is an example link:
application:server:https\://blahblahblah.fileextension
I want to be able to simply click on this, ...
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Edit Document causes Word to crash
We have a workflow that creates a task containing a link to a document in SharePoint.
We seem to have an intermittent problem where a user will open their document from the link and upon clicking '...
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2019 workflow to notify
I am in Sharepoint 2019 and have a workflow to notify users when they need to follow up on a leadership survey. I have the email working, but can't get the link to the actual item to consistently ...
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What is the best way to set links so that they auto-update when creating new site from site template?
I'm using SharePoint Online currently and was previously a SP Site Designer/Site Collection Admin for a series of enterprise-edition SP 2003, 2010, and 2013 sites. I distinctly remember setting up ...
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Coloring a link in SharePoint
I am using SharePoint Online in the Office 365 environment. Currently, I have a calendar view of a list (not an actual calendar app for various other reasons). Using Javascript, I am looking at the ...
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How to crack Sharepoint Online document links to its actual url
Its so annoying Sharepoint online now has copy link which creates this GUID which i have no clue where it orginated from.
https://turainc.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/tura/...
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Wrapping Promoted Links
In SharePoint Online, I have a home page on a team site on which I have added a promoted links app part.
Following a few posts, I also added a media script part and cut and pasted code to set the ...
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Creating a shareable link to a document that opens in Office for desktop, not Office Online?
There is a feature in SharePoint Online where you can select a document and choose 'Copy URL' to generate a shareable link to a document.
Unfortunately, by default, SharePoint is configured to make ...
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Identify Links to Assets Across Site
I am working at removing content from a Sharepoint site. It has to due with a discontinued product. I can find most of the hosted documents that relate to the product through search, but am trying to ...
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Bug Report? Links with period used to work for folders within doc libraries, but is no longer working
I am sure that links with period worked at one point for folders previously, as it did for all my previous work. But when I checked again recently after one of my stakeholders reported some broken ...
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link task to list item
how can I link task to list item. I need to link between the related content field from task list and Name (linked to document with edit menu) field from the list itself. I need to email the ...
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Change Logo link in Sharepoint Online (2018)
I need to change the link of the Logo image for all sub-sites to point to the main site instead of the sub-site itself. Looked around quite a bit, but all posts seem to be suggesting to replace ...
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Sharepoint Designer 2010
How do you obtain broken links report in SharePoint Designer 2010 for Sharepoint 2010? I have been told this is not possible with SPD2010.
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First link in current navigation also directs users to Parent Site SP online 2016
A strange error is occuring in SharePoint online 2016.
In the current navigation (left menu), no matter what sub-site you are in the first link is ALWAYS directing users to the Home Page of the Site ...
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Popup message : Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is '403'. The status text of response is 'Forbidden'
When I edit my page and add some link like in picture below:
I can successfully added the link but when I click on Display Icon under Link Tab:,
I got this popup message.
could not understand, ...
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Members users are not able to share a site with External users
I am working on sharepoint online tenant, and i am unable to allow member users to share the sites with external users.
here is what i tried:-
inside the tenant we are allowing external sharing + ...
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User changes folder name in SP 2013 and link doesn't work?
This might be a simple one, but has created a folder with various files, puts a link to it in an email, but if they change the name of the folder the link doesn't work. I thought that links in SP 2013 ...
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Cant get html file to open in sharepoint
I have a standalone html file that contains a sales report, created in R. I have saved the file to the SitePages folder. I have then added a link. When I edit the link and paste in the filepath, I can ...
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Guest Links are not working all the time
I have been using sharepoint guest links for years now for my company. I have the links on our website that link to our product PDFs. I noticed a few weeks ago that when i create the guest links the ...
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Fix the value of the description for a link in the “Link or Picture” list field
On sharepoint 2013 I have a list and one of the field is a Link and picture field, we use this for links only. I would like to set the description to some text e.g. "Click Here" whenever there is a ...
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Creating a link to folder which does NOT allow recipients to edit documents within the folder
I want to send someone a link to a folder but not allow them to edit any of the documents within that folder. When I create a link to a folder and deselect 'allow editing' they're still able to edit ...
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Endless Pop-ups Trying to Save Word with linked Excel files on SharePoint
I have a Word document saved on SharePoint 2013 that contains a large number of linked objects (tables from Excel files and bar charts from Excel files).
When I click Save on the Word doc, I start ...
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Invalid API response while removing public links for a document (though the action is performed)
I'm noticing a strange API behavior where the action goes through but the errors say
Bad request.
This was working fine 4 days back. Now, it is returning the following response
{"error":{"code":"...
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How to autofill a field based on other field's value?
I have a coustom list with input fields "textboxA" and "textboxB" (list is empty). I have diferent list with "columnA" and "columnB" (a lot of data). I have an autocomplete function based on js: if ...
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Button Link to Modal in Template - Relative URL
Good Morning!~
I have a button on a page that brings up the modal newform for a Questions and Answers list.
javascript:
var options=SP.UI.$create_DialogOptions();options.url='https://server/sites/...
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How to search Links list from wiki link?
Background
From a default Team Site, I am trying to link to an item in a list from a Site Page (with wiki support). Normally, I would search for an item easily by typing [[List:<list name>/<...
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Is there a way to reenable a disabled link for a file I replaced in SharePoint?
I use SharePoint Publisher in my organization, I had to replace an Excel file that I shared (get link) with ~300 ppl.
When I replaced the file, I wasn't aware that the link would change, and now when ...
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How to create a clickable slideshow
I'm trying to create a slideshow on sharepoint online 2013 that when clicked, brings you to a different page, not just the image itself. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!
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Top navigation lost links
I've lost links in the top site navigation bar. It now looks like this:
Rather than
Hovering over Projects0 shows just the subsite name and not the full subsite URL.
Hope someone is able to give me ...
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How to implement: Track an item through processes with a linked document?
I'm looking for the best way to implement a system in SharePoint to track processes during asset production which includes document management for the asset itself. Let me try to break down the ...
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SharePoint Online - How to display the links of a summary link web part in a Horizontal Manner?
I am trying to display links of a Summary Link web part in horizontal pattern. I am not good in CSS to make these changes. Please let me know if there is another way to do it? If the only way is ...
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Links from workflow
We have a document library and department pages. In the department pages we have links to documents in the library. We also have a document approval workflow. It's it possible to get the link ...
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Linked list headers
I'm trying to make a sub page where I have multiple link lists. Each of the links would need to open up a new window into either a web page or a document. Right now, I can't find a way to add sub ...
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Sorry, something went wrong. An unexpected error has occurred on Content and Structure log
Getting error when clicking on Content and Structure log.
Also getting same error on below one.
In Edit mode of page, when i trying to add link, I am getting following error.
Things I tried,
1) ...
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Change a navigation link in SharePoint 2010
I have been tasked with changing a sub site name in our SharePoint 2010. The name change was easy, however the top link bar still links to the incorrect name. So I then went to "Top link bar" under "...
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Change a single line of text field to rich text?
I am having this issue: SharePoint 2013 - Custom View linkToItem=“TRUE” - Prevent Character Encoding in Link Text
It sounds like I need to change the field to rich text. The field currently is a "...
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Is there a way to customize the context menu in a Timeline?
I want to set up a Task List so that a user is able to click on a task and see a link to a page. The link would be stored in column of the Task List.
An acceptable alternative would be to click on ...
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All Links part of Global or Left navigation are not visible to Read only access users in SPS2013
Environment: SharePoint 2013
Users part of Read access group are facing issue, they cant view:
a) Top Navigation visible with no all links, same for left navigation.
I tried removing the Read ...
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sharepoint summary links web part, but big bright buttons design
I got a request to create a page in sharepoint, the page is simply to display information, fair enough, but the person making the request have been looking at other sites, and decided to go for the ...
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Mailto links on my wiki pages don't work
I have started adding "mailto:" hyperlinks on some of the wiki pages in my SharePoint site. The link is set up correctly but when I click on it Chrome either does nothing or opens a new Chrome tab.
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Categories and links below
How can I make a site, where I can choose between different categories, and below these add links such as a power point-file and pdf. Which template is best to use? people will not contribute add ...
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Org Charts in sharepoint foundation
can someone recommend some software for creating and maintaining org charts in SharePoint foundation 2013.
ideally should be free :) easy to edit, and allow picture images to be inserted.
thanks
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Can I force “quick launch” sidebar links from home page to all sites and sub-sites?
We have an SharePoint Foundation 2013 setup.
At the home page quick launch bar, we have 20 odd subsites, with other subsites off these.
Can I force SharePoint to keep this quick launch bar visible ...
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Adding external url in term driven pages
How do I add an external url in my term driven pages?
I don't have the option Edit links on the page and I have to go through term driven settings.
But then I don't know how to add an external url....
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How to Remove Hyperlink from Items in a List (SharePoint 2013)
I have a couple of connected webparts that are lists. When the filtered results are returned in one webpart, there is a column where each item in the list is linked, where you can click on it and read ...
