Most of the time you can do what you need to do within SharePoint using the standard interface. There are times when this isn’t quite good enough and it’s useful to manually change a URL to use a specific SharePoint feature.
There are a number of URL tricks you can use to get to parts of the system that the interface doesn’t support or you can’t use for whatever reason. Obviously you still need the appropriate permissions to access the pages or perform related actions.
Pages
The following options relate to page operations. The right hand column contains the text you can append to the end of a page URL that ends in .aspx.
| Add webparts (browse) | ?ToolPaneView=2 |
| Add webparts (search) | ?ToolPaneView=3 |
| Dialog Mode (no site header) | ?IsDlg=true |
| Mobile View | ?mobile=1 |
| Webpart Maintenance Mode | ?contents=1 |
Site Management
The following options relate to site operations. The right hand column contains the text you can append to the end of a site URL that ends in a forward slash (/).
| Create New Site Content | _layouts/create.aspx |
| Manage People | _layouts/people.aspx |
| Manage User Permissions | _layouts/user.aspx |
| Manage Site Collection Administrators | _layouts/mngsiteadmin.aspx |
| Navigation Settings | _layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx |
| Recycle Bin | _layouts/AdminRecycleBin.aspx |
| Site Column Gallery | _layouts/mngfield.aspx |
| Site Content Types | _layouts/mngctype.aspx |
| Site Settings | _layouts/settings.aspx |
| User Alerts | _layouts/sitesubs.aspx |
| View All Site Content | _layouts/viewlsts.aspx |
| Workflows | _layouts/wrkmng.aspx |
Lists
The following options relate to list operations. The right hand column contains the text you can append to the end of a list URL that ends in a forward slash (/).
| Filter a list | AllItems.aspx?FilterField1=fieldName&FilterValue1=value |
Galleries
The following options relate to site galleries. The right hand column contains the text you can append to the end of a site URL that ends in a forward slash (/).
| List Template Gallery | _catalogs/lt |
| Master Page Gallery | _catalogs/masterpage |
| Site Template Gallery | _catalogs/wt |
| User Information List | _catalogs/users/simple.aspx |
| Webpart Gallery | _catalogs/wp |
Surveys
The following options relate to site surveys. The right hand column contains the text you can append to the end of a survey URL that looks like http://myserver/MySurvey/
| Standard Survey Page | Overview.aspx |
| Survey Response Form | NewForm.aspx |
| Dialog Mode (no site header) | NewForm.aspx?IsDlg=true |
| Thank you Page | NewForm.aspx?Source=THANKYOUURL where THANKYOUURL is a URL Encoded link to your thankyou page. |
Many of these URL fragments worked on SharePoint 2007 and may work on SharePoint 2013.
If there are any I’ve missed leave a comment and I’ll update the page.