Automatically shorten urls for publicly shared items from OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online
Automatically shorten the urls for publicly shared items from SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, similar to what is available in OneDrive.
When the feature is complete the urls generated by Get a Link / Create Link should be shortened automatically (possibly using http://1dr.ms) and a similar feature should be introduced in Sharepoint Online document libraries.
Thomas Israelsen
shared this idea
We introduced shorter sharing links in OneDrive and SharePoint in 2018.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/shorter-share-link-format
74 comments
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Anonymous
commented
Starting to get requests from users to get shorten URL's for OneDrive links - Please can this be looked at
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Erik Olson
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Unbelievable that this is still even a request and not complete! I tell MS every chance I get that OD4B needs to be as easy to use as Dropbox! We, along with most OD4B users, would switch to Dropbox if it were included in our O365 subscription.
Come on Microsoft, get your act together and make Od4B as easy to use as your competition!
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Peej Maybe
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Crazy that in this day and age, we are still stuck with stupidly long URLs for out of the box Office 365 products - relying on (quite frankly rubbish and appallingly priced) third party apps and products to do something that MS should be doing themselves. Another yes vote.
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Paul E. Jones
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Having the entire user ID and domain in shared URLs is *the* reason I don't share from OneDrive. I guess the thought was that the sharing party knows the receiver, but that's not always the case when sharing with the public.
We really need URLs that don't reveal personal information.
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BATMANC commented
YES!
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Ryan Walls
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Right now links to sharepoint look horrid so anything is an improvement.
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Marie Steinthaler
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@Douglas Peace: when you're looking at this, can you also consider making a file name / folder name change non-breaking?? See idea https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/7863588-retitle-or-rename-file-should-not-break-url-link
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Anonymous
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best shorten url sus.net
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Thomas Israelsen
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@Douglas: There is not much to think about. Just do it :-)
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lumpysdoall
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Please bring back shorten links to OneDrive. Thanks in advance
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Sarah
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Personally, I was fine having to click "shorten link" manually, I'd just like to have this option back. Having the "1drv.ms" in my links looks less fishy than "ow.ly" or "bit.ly".
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Chad Guimbellot
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Please bring back shorten links to OneDrive. Thanks in advance.
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Meg
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Guys! It's easy to shorten the link yourself. Google has a web page that will do it for you in a sec. Don't write off one drive when it's so easy to work around this issue
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Anonymous
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We NEED this. It looks so unprofessional to have this humongous link!
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Anonymous
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I would need this tremendously! It looks ridiculous sneidng out these massive links, and running it through bit.ly sometimes is a time luxury I don't have.
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Anonymous
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This is ABSOLUTE NECESSITY -- I have been thinking of switching to one drive for business - but will not do this until this feature is available again. Customers and colleagues hate the long links showing up in correspondence of all kinds.
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Melanie Claybar
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We need this in business/education! Who wouldn't want this capability? It's an added step having to use bit.ly or <gasp> goo.gl. Fix this please!
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Anonymous
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Business users NEED THIS!
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userlim
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I hope you will reconsider this decision soon. The current sharing links are far too long. The link length makes my emails look unprofessional on top of making the email longer. Keeping emails short and clean is critical. Sharing link length is the main reason I rarely use my OD4B.
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Adi
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@Reuben Krippner : The fact that you have this in the consumer service should tell you that you have the know-how to enable this feature... It's a very useful feature and would really make life easier for people transitioning or evaluating cloud services.
The 'easy-to-use' features on the consumer end of things are what brings and retains the users - whether it be a large or small business. Please stop closing your ears when your customers are giving you some valuable feedback..
Here's a short story : Blackberry once ruled the roost in business telephony. All IT departments provided the feedback that iPhones were consumer devices and not meant for business telephone needs. That feedback resounded with folks at RIM (who went on with business as usual) and a few others.... A short blip of time later .. The End.
