Suggestion: Built-in Function for URL Shortening
After reading Gaev's post https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/forms-working-since-last-september-now-causing-errors I thought of a simple solution to this problem that also would benefit other applications: Have a built-in function that performs url shortening.
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There are several reasons to use URL shortening. The free hosting space provided by access Internet Service Providers for its customers may generate an aesthetically unpleasing address. Some web developers on mainstream sites tend to pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information and this often results in a URL that contains a large number of characters, is awkward to reproduce and impossible to remember. Copying a URL that is hundreds of characters long can only really be successfully done by copy-and-paste. Trying to type one by hand will be time-consuming and may result in errors. Thus a short URL is more useful to write in a hard copy publication (e.g. a printed magazine or a book) or in situations when a very long string may be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software orinternet forums), making copying difficult, or truncated." ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening