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Web Folder Mappings Contain the Characters "%20" When You Copy and Paste a URL
When a you try to add a Web folder mapping to a Windows SharePoint Services document library by copying and pasting the Web folder's URL ,
you find that the URL now contains the following characters: %20. You have to
remove the "%20" characters before the address is accepted for the Web
folder.
When you paste a Web address, any blank spaces in the URL
are replaced with the blank space code, %20. The blank spaces in the URL are
automatically translated into the "%20" characters.
To work around this behavior, you must type the Web folder
address manually.
For example, when you copy the URL from the browser,
it looks similar to
http://server/Shared%20Documents. Either your attempt to create a Web folder with this URL is
unsuccessful, or the network place or Web folder is created at
http://server. To create the Web folder correctly, type the URL without the
%20:
http://server/shared documents.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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