SharePoint: EncodedAbsUrl and the Full URL of an SPListItem.

You want to get the full URL of an SPListItem, but the SPListItem.Url property returns only the server relative URL.

You could concatenate together the SPListItem.Web.Url and SPListItem.Url property values, alternatively you can use the ows_EncodedAbsUrl metadata value;

using (var site = new SPSite(webUrl))
using (var web = site.OpenWeb())
{
	SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];
	SPListItem item = list.Items[0];
	string itemUrl = item["ows_EncodedAbsUrl"].ToString();
}

The exact form of this metadata value seems to vary according to how it’s used, such as from an SPSiteDataQuery, as I mentioned in this post.

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3 thoughts on “SharePoint: EncodedAbsUrl and the Full URL of an SPListItem.”

jeff says:

January 2, 2012 at 11:13

thank you, that is what i was looking for
Sarwa says:

January 9, 2013 at 11:37

Thank you so much… you saved my time 🙂
Tabares says:

April 22, 2013 at 16:37

Thank you it was very useful.

It was my salution in SPservices.

var f = “”+
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$().SPServices({
operation: “GetListItems”,
async: false,
listName: list,
CAMLViewFields: f,
CAMLLimit: l,
CAMLQuery: q,
CAMLQueryOptions: qo,

completefunc: function (xData, Status) {

$(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode(“z:row”).each(function() {

var url = $(this).attr(“ows_EncodedAbsUrl”)

$(“#tasksUL”).append(liHtml);

});
}
});