Re: URL to a particular document in library which is in a sub-folder

From: Mike Walsh (englantilainen_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:02:19 +0200

The implementation of folders in WSS seems to have been put in at the last
minute and is flawed. There have been many problems with them reported here
in the past.

I recommend instead that instead of folders in doc libs you use Views. They
work.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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"gougler" <gougler@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1108581078.510329.26150@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I have a WSS site and document library. The document library has
> multiple folders. I have a document in a folder which is 2 levels down
> (in a subfolder within this document library).
> I am trying to email some people with a hyperlink to this document but
> I can't! I mean, when I click on the document to go to
> DispForm.aspx?id=xx. etc from the site it works - I get the dispform
> for that document. But when I take the URL I have in the browser and
> paste it to another browser window the site comes back with Error:
> "Item does not exist. The page you selected contains an item that does
> not exist. It may have been deleted by another user. Click "Home" at
> the top of the page to return to your Web site."
>
> The URL to the DispForm looks like this:
>
> http://SERVERNAME/SITENAME/DOCUMENT_LIBRARY_NAME/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=21&Source=SOURCEURL&RootFolder=%2fSITENAME%2fDOCUMENT_LIBRARY_NAME%2fFOLDER_NAME
>
> this link does not work! But exactly the same URL appears in the
> browser when the dispform is accessed by navigating through the site.
>
> Normally when folders are not used (the document is in a root folder of
> a document library) I can send someone this URL:
>
> http://SERVERNAME/SITENAME/DOCUMENT_LIBRARY_NAME/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=22
>
> and they can access the document properties without any problems.
>
> So my question is:
>
> How can I capture proper URL to a document in a document library which
> is in a sub-folder?
>
> thanks!!!!!
>
> http://wss.nesbittburns.ca/projects/univeris/Technical_Architecture/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=22
>

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