What parts of a URL count toward SharePoint path length?

Question

Plenty of articles tell me that when calculating a the length of a SharePoint path, I ignore the server protocol and name, and start with (in the case of a business site) /sites. Those articles also often mention that parameters are not counted toward path length.

When calculating the path length from a decoded web URL then, should I be counting this (the bold part):

https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?FolderCTID=0x012000283F45AAD7B07547B1F52BBDDDE6FF93&id=/sites/SiteName/Shared Documents/FolderName/Image.png

or this:

https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?FolderCTID=0x012000283F45AAD7B07547B1F52BBDDDE6FF93&id=/sites/SiteName/Shared Documents/FolderName/Image.png

?

Answer 1

Hi @Rick Lecoat ,

When calculating the path length for a SharePoint URL, you should start counting from the /sites segment and ignore the parameters. So the query string parameters (?FolderCTID=...&id=...) are not included in the path length calculation.

In your example URL, the path you would be counting is:

/sites/SiteName/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

For your references:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restrictions-and-limitations-in-onedrive-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa#filenamepathlengths

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/new-maxpath-limits-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/ba-p/68273

Have a nice day! :-)

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