How to get current site URL in a New/Edit Form

Question

I'm working on customize New/Edit form on SharePoint 2010 by SPD 2010.

I need to reference some Javascript code and css file, which are located in 'Documents' list on the same site. Now I use absolute URL to reference the files. But when I deploy to production, the site name will be changed also the server name. So I hope to build a relative reference, or get the current site URL in page code.

Anyone knows how to make it?

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Alex Du

Answer 1

hi

check this doc regarding relative URL

http://www.ibdhost.com/help/path/

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Answer 2

$().SPServices.SPGetCurrentSite(); --> For this refer to the spservices library ofcourse.
This is one way of getting the url or else you can use windows.location.href and split it.
-AJ

Answer 3

Hi AJ,

I think your method works, but may not for my case.

It seems you invoke SharePoint client model to retreive the site URL, which is an addin of jQuery. But at first I need to reference jQuery library like <script scr="http://servername/sitename/documents/jQuery.js" /> in the New Form page code.

But when I deploy to production, the servername and sitename part will be changed. So I hope to use a relative path to replace the src part, or has some method to know the site url forehand to generate the src part.

So your method seems depends on successfully referenced jQuery library, which is my difficult part.

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Alex Du

Answer 4

Hi ,

I understand that you want to add javascript on New\Edit form to get current site URL. When you create an item to a list ,the url is like :http://servername:portnumber/sitename/Lists/listname/NewForm.aspx?RootFolder=.The ‘Lists’ in the URL is unique ,you can use this to get the current site URL. Here is the javascript code :

    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

         window.onload = function () {

             var currentUrl = window.location.href;

             currentUrl = currentUrl.substring(0, currentUrl.lastIndexOf('Lists')+1);

             alert(currentUrl);

         }

     </script>

When it comes to a library ,you need to change Lists in the code to the library name.

Thanks,

Entan Ming

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Entan Ming

TechNet Community Support

Answer 5

Hello,

You can do like below to refer the files uploaded in the same site.

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../List Name/jquery.js"></script>

Also to access the current context using Java script, please go through the below link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg701783.aspx

Thanks,
Dhileep