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Troubleshooting share links

Let's looks at possible causes of broken share links

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When generating a link to your form users can sometimes experience and error preventing them from accessing the form. These errors include one of these messages:

  1. Oops, something went wrong Request failed: 500

  2. Session token request failed: 401

In this article, we provide troubleshooting steps to help you resolve this issue.

401 Error when access a form


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Incomplete authentication

When creating a public share link to your form you will usually be prompted to authenticate the link. This error indicates that the link was not properly authenticated. To resolve this issue, you can follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the share dialogue for the form. You will notice an error icon next to the link.

  2. Click the error icon and follow the authentication prompts, please note that the authentication pop-up might be block by your browser.

  3. Once you have completed the authentication step the error icon will disappear and the share link should start to work.

Public form links stop working after unpublishing

When a form is unpublished, any public URLs linked to that form are invalidated and will no longer work until the form has been re-published.

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