topic Nonescaped URL; creating an Webdav URL for Windows Explorer in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117492#M82972 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want my users to be able to connect to a space over webdav by using the Network places in Windows Explorer</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When i use "View in WebDAV" url from the Alfresco webclient on a space with has whitespaces in the name i get an escaped</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>url i.e.&nbsp; </SPAN><A href="http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Test/I70001%20Test%20Project" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Test/I70001%20Test%20Project</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If i enter this escaped url a Network Location in the Explorer the escaped section is skipped and the following Network</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>location is added:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Test/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Test/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is a known bug in Explorer, see </SPAN><A href="http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/webfolder-client-list.html#issue-connect-parent-coll-with-blanks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/webfolder-client-list.html#issue-connect-parent-coll-with-blanks</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If i manually remove the escaped sections in the url then it is correctly added as a Network Location in the Explorer.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is there a possibility to create a unescaped link or string of a space in Alfresco. I tried using a FTL template to recreate</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the webdav url</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>– snip –</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&lt;#assign webdavurl="</SPAN><A href="http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav</A><SPAN>"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Network location:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;${webdavurl}/${space.displayPath}/${space.name}&lt;/td&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>– snip –</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>but this gives me the following url:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Company" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Company</A><SPAN> Home/Test/I70001 Test Project</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>"Company Home" gets inserted in the url by ${space.displayPath}, when looking at the Webdav url, "Company Home" is not part</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>of the url. Is there a way to get a unescaped url or the path of the space without the "Company Home" part?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Regards Rob</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:47:59 GMT robses 2007-08-10T11:47:59Z Nonescaped URL; creating an Webdav URL for Windows Explorer https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117492#M82972 Hello all, I want my users to be able to connect to a space over webdav by using the Network places in Windows ExplorerWhen i use "View in WebDAV" url from the Alfresco webclient on a space with has whitespaces in the name i get an escapedurl i.e.&nbsp; http://alfreco.example.com/alfresco/webdav/Test/I70 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:47:59 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117492#M82972 robses 2007-08-10T11:47:59Z Re: Nonescaped URL; creating an Webdav URL for Windows Explorer https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117493#M82973 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You could use a simple substring operation to remove the "/Company Home" part of the displaypath. FreeMarker has a substring and you can also use array access to the elements in a string.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Kevin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117493#M82973 kevinr 2007-08-15T11:43:32Z Re: Nonescaped URL; creating an Webdav URL for Windows Explorer https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117494#M82974 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Just to add to Kevin's comment:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If doing string substitution on the displaypath, ensure you use </SPAN><STRONG>companyhome.name</STRONG><SPAN> rather than hard-coding "Company Home" in your Freemarker script.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:18:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117494#M82974 mikeh 2007-08-15T12:18:10Z Re: Nonescaped URL; creating an Webdav URL for Windows Explorer https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117495#M82975 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks you for the pointer in using the substring method, feeling myself a bit ashamed i didn't think of this. When finished I will post the Freemarker template in this thread.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> regards Rob</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:43:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nonescaped-url-creating-an-webdav-url-for-windows-explorer/m-p/117495#M82975 robses 2007-08-31T13:43:15Z