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LincolnDeMaris
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Feb 10, 2017

Use the Quick Links web part to put your content front and center

Don’t bury your lead - put important stuff right up front for your site visitors. The Quick Links web part allows you to add visibility to the most important content you create – with the ability to ...
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Jim Duncan
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Nov 07, 2017

This may be the wrong thread for this, but here goes:

Why is "/?web=1" being added to the end of URLs I paste into Quick Links? In some cases, this is actually breaking the link as the receiving server doesn't know what to do with that parameter or isn't expecting it...

 

  • John_Sanders's avatar
    John_Sanders
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    Nov 09, 2017

    Thank you for reporting this issue.

     

    We updated quick links to fix an issue where files were being downloaded to user's machines by appending the parameter "?web=1" (which tells SharePoint to open the files in a web browser).

     

    It looks like we're being a bit aggressive and adding it to all URLs (not only SharePoint URLs).

     

    We'll get this fixed.

    • samhegarty's avatar
      samhegarty
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 21, 2019

      2 years later and web=1 still isn't fixed. Please bug everyone you can to get this removed John_Sanders as we can't use anchor tags while it's there.

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    Ivan54
    Bronze Contributor
    Nov 08, 2017
    no clue. I also sometimes get csf=1

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