Comments on: Manage SharePoint Libraries from Desktop Folders

By: Murtaza

Murtaza — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:46:09 +0000

On Vista there is a wizard interface that allows you to use a Web page as a server and set it up as a mapped drive.

By: Chris Quick

Chris Quick — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:39:56 +0000

I might also point out that if your SharePoint site is available on your local network, you can make use of the Windows Explorer view to create your shortcut. This will provide a UNC path (\\server\site\docs) that will automatically be scrubbed of those pesky %xx codes.

By: Chris Quick

Chris Quick — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:35:43 +0000

Chris,

That is an excellent point! It can be rather frustrating to attempt to sanitize the link. In an initial search, I found the following website to be helpful in decoding the URL %xx codes.

http://www.hashemian.com/tools/html-url-encode-decode.php

I’m not sure how much I would trust my secure URL’s with this tool, but you could place the portion of your url you want to translate into the tool and then click on URL decode at the bottom.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:59:22 +0000

You may want to add step 7 1/2 to sanitize the URL. Spaces in an URL are represented by “%20″ (and other punctuation by similar “percent” codes). In my experience, the Network Place wizard does not like such URLs. I must manually convert these percent codes to their equivalent punctuation. My users hate this, especially because our URLs tend to include spaces followed by the year (e.g. “Year 2008″, which appears as “Year%202008″). Figuring out which “20″s need replacing and which do not is an ongoing sore point with them.

By: Saving Important Email to SharePoint : End User SharePoint

Saving Important Email to SharePoint : End User SharePoint — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:53:14 +0000

[...] One of the questions that comes up regularly is how to save an important email into SharePoint. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to use the Save As functionality in Outlook. Before continuing with this article, you should create a shortcut as described in drag and drop to a SP library. [...]