# Google doc links from Google Apps account don't work
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [7. Februar 2015 um 18:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951 "2015-02-07T18:26:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jqnatividad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jqnatividad)
#### Post date: [7. Februar 2015 um 18:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951/1 "2015-02-07T18:26:07Z")
They result in a page with Google complaining that the link is not valid.
However, if I go ask for a shareable link from the same Google Doc, the link works.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7. Februar 2015 um 18:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951/2 "2015-02-07T18:52:01Z")
Can you provide examples here?
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### Author:  [@jqnatividad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jqnatividad)
#### Post date: [7. Februar 2015 um 20:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951/3 "2015-02-07T20:01:38Z")
For example:
A public google doc shared from a Google Apps account (beta.nyc) that doesn’t work. It appears that Discourse url encodes the ? for the edit URL parameter.
> **[Non Procurement Sample.xlsx](https://docs.google.com/a/beta.nyc/spreadsheets/d/1mucqtKu8NNVbZpZ5aNXSyu88doovXFKI_QIt5UrfoSw/edit?gid=1516527776)**
It doesn’t happen on the get a shareable link version of the same doc.
> **[Non Procurement Sample.xlsx](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mucqtKu8NNVbZpZ5aNXSyu88doovXFKI_QIt5UrfoSw/edit?usp=sharing)**
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> This Sheet is private
As markdown link - [form 1](https://docs.google.com/a/beta.nyc/spreadsheets/d/1mucqtKu8NNVbZpZ5aNXSyu88doovXFKI_QIt5UrfoSw/edit?gid=1516527776)
As markdown link - [form 2](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mucqtKu8NNVbZpZ5aNXSyu88doovXFKI_QIt5UrfoSw/edit?usp=sharing)
Strange… it works here…
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### Author:  [@jqnatividad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jqnatividad)
#### Post date: [7. Februar 2015 um 20:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951/4 "2015-02-07T20:24:18Z")
Never mind, it was a user error ☹ I double-checked the user’s posting, and he must have mangled the URLs when he C&Ped from the browser:
[https://docs.google.com/a/beta.nyc/spreadsheets/d/1mucqtKu8NNVbZpZ5aNXSyu88doovXFKI\_QIt5UrfoSw/edit%23gid=1516527776](https://docs.google.com/a/beta.nyc/spreadsheets/d/1mucqtKu8NNVbZpZ5aNXSyu88doovXFKI_QIt5UrfoSw/edit%23gid=1516527776)
Note the %23 for the URL parm. BTW, does Discourse handle percent-encoded links? (say %20 for embedded spaces)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7. Februar 2015 um 21:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doc-links-from-google-apps-account-dont-work/24951/5 "2015-02-07T21:33:38Z")