Copy SharePoint WebDav Address to Clipboard

Anatoly Mironov

November 5, 2015

While configuring SharePoint sites and helping users I often use File Explorer View for editing pages, resources like css and javascript. In IE there is a dedicated button in the ribbon for that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, because of permissions or other restrictions. Anyway, I use Firefox and Chrome while troubleshooting and developing, so I have created a bookmarklet for copying the webdav address of a site that is open in the browser.

var uri = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl.replace(/https?:\/\//i,
  "\\\\")
  .replace(/\//g, "\\");
window.prompt("Copy to clipboard: Ctrl+C, Enter",
  uri);

Unfortunately, there is no copy function in javascript, the prompt solution plus Ctrl-C works fine. The bookmarklet:

javascript:void%20function(){var%20o=_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl.replace(/https%3F:\/\//i,%22\\\\%22).replace(/\//g,%22\\%22);window.prompt(%22Copy%20to%20clipboard:%20Ctrl+C,%20Enter%22,o)}();

Enjoy