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InfoPath – Shorten url for browser based forms

In the world of InfoPath, you may have noticed the the url for an open form is crazy big!  I ran into a problem in the past when I ran out of space in the url.  Sometimes this happens if the form is nested a couple of levels down in a site.  Whenever you open a new form in the browser, your url will look like the following:

https://www.yoursite.com/depts/test/_layouts/15/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=
https://www.yoursite.com/depts/test/newhiresur/Forms/template.xsn&SaveLocation
=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoursite%2Ecom%2Fdepts%2Ftest%2Fnewhiresur
&ClientInstalled=true&DefaultItemOpen=1&Source=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2
Eyoursite%2Ecom%2Fdepts%2Ftest%2Fnewhiresur%2FForms%2FAll
Items%2Easpx

You can shorten the above by removing all of the items in bold.  It will look like this once you have finished:

https://www.yoursite.com/depts/test/_layouts/15/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=
/depts/test/newhiresur/Forms/template.xsn&SaveLocation=%2Fdepts%2Ftest%
2Fnewhiresur&ClientInstalled=true&DefaultItemOpen=1

As a best practice, I do this each time I have to setup a link to an InfoPath form.   This way, I keep my urls short and will not have any issues of running out of url space.

 

Stay Salty!

 

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