"View as xml" forum url hack?

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  Here you go: /?outputas=xml
  
  ...and yes, it still works. Find myself using it a lot since the new forum design.

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  Martina Miskovic

  • Marked as answer by Wyck Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:00 PM

  Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:35 PM

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  Exactly!  That's it!  Thanks very much, Martina!

  Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:01 PM

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  This is awesome, I didn't know about this before.

  Thanks for the tip.

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  Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:18 PM

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  Richard,

  I think this information is actually contained further down in the users section. Check this thread in xml view:

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/4585f283-e491-4618-8f39-547da4b9921f/copy-x-items-from-folder/?outputas=xml

  I took the GUID shown in the proposed answer section and ran a search on the page. I got a hit in the users section that shows that the GUID should be ImMax. He hasn't posted in that thread, so my guess is that he's the one who proposed the answer (otherwise I have no idea why he'd be listed at all).

  I just went and checked his activity, this does appear to be right. Anyway, Bryant just recently posted in my thread here saying that these bugs should be fixed in the release next week, so hopefully this can go back into the list of obscure workarounds that don't ever need to be repeated.

  EDIT: Here's a way to be sure. Was it you who marked my post here as the answer? Based on what I'm seeing, it should have been.

  EDIT2: Never mind, that's probably not necessary. I can see that Wyck's GUID marked the answer in this thread.
  

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  • Edited by Mike Laughlin Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:54 PM

  Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:41 PM

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  Another useful URL hack is to link directly to a reply.

  To do this, first hack the url to add the outputas=xml query. (usually append &outputas=xml if there's already a ? in the url.  And simply append ?outputas=xml if there's not.)

  For example, for this thread:

  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f2e421c3-0048-4be0-8878-21063c9ee284/view-as-xml-forum-url-hack?outputas=xml

  Then, find the <message> tag you want to link to and steal its id tag value.

  It will look something like this:  <message id="5c830990-16e2-461e-b59b-2efe010825cc"

  Then you have to hack the original thread url again to include # and the id of the message. like this:

  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f2e421c3-0048-4be0-8878-21063c9ee284/view-as-xml-forum-url-hack#5c830990-16e2-461e-b59b-2efe010825cc
  

  
  

  • Edited by Wyck Monday, December 30, 2013 7:47 PM Corrected spelling.

  Monday, December 30, 2013 7:45 PM

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