Question

I am trying to add a hyperlink in the content editor in sharepoint 2010. The problem is that the validation only allows certain accepted protocols (http, https, ftp, mailto, news, etc..). I need to add Lotus Notes link such as this: “notes://mydomain”.

I found a few pages that had some solutions for SharePoint 2007, but they did not work for me.

• Allowing alternate protocols to be entered in link fields
• how to insert notes:// link?

My hope is that SP2010 addresses a way of getting around this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I did not find a good solution, in my opinion. I really wanted to be able to modify some setting in SharePoint and allow other protocols. I went as far as trying to override the IsSafeHref() in core.js, but no luck. My final solution was to create a WebPart that reads the querystring and calls a redirect. Like so:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   string url = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["url"];

   if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
   {
       Response.Redirect(url);
   }
}

Hope it helps others out there.