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Copper Contributor

Mar 06, 2019

'Copy Link' and 'Share' creating too many unique permissions to manage

Looking for some advice on managing the enormous amount of unique permissions created by the 'copy link' and 'share' functionality? Even when our team selects the link option as 'People with existing...

Iron Contributor

Aug 01, 2019

Amy_TactixIn order to get the 'People with existing access' by default with 'Copy link', you need to change: SharePoint Admin Center > Sharing > Default link > Specific people.

I wrote about it here: https://ktnnsharepoint.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/share-copy-link-sharepoint-online/

Does anybody know if it is possible to get the direct link to a file?

This
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteComm/Shared%20Documents/flower.docx

Instead of
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/SiteComm/Shared%20Documents/flower.docx?d=w08094221db864a8484da936d6e35d445&csf=1&e=rXRM61

Like in the Quick link Web Part when selecting a file.

JennyHersko

Copper Contributor

Mar 07, 2020

kmktnn There are several ways to get clean URLs that don't break permissions inheritance. You can get the URL from the browser for PDFs, on the File tab for Office documents, you can obtain clean URLs in bulk by exporting a library to Excel and using VB, and finally there are two link options in your Office Profile/Delve. (Where your recently modified documents appear.) Details are at https://jennyssharepointtips.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/sharepoint-online-get-clean-document-urls-bypass-encryption-or-sharing-url/