# 3 sharing issues
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 7, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369 "2021-02-07T12:33:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/1 "2021-02-07T12:33:27Z")
1. The link receiver sees an old app icon
2. The link is very long, therefore ugly to see and could it be more ‘personal’ or customizable?
3. The sharing menu seems bugged atm showing only small apps icons.
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### Author:  [@PabloMFalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PabloMFalero)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/2 "2021-02-07T13:33:31Z")
The second point is because you are sharing a screen and not the app, it shows the row id or something like that, that’s why the link is so long
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### Author:  [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/3 "2021-02-07T14:05:21Z")
I know, that doesn’t solve the problem.
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### Author:  [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/4 "2021-02-07T14:11:07Z")
Has the link receiver downloaded the app before? Our devices aggressively cache app icons.
You could try having him reset the browser / cookies
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/5 "2021-02-07T14:14:53Z")
Regarding point 2, the address is long because there is a lot of information encoded in that url, which directs the app to the correct location in the app through the correct heirarchy path. If you have the same detail screen accessible through multiple different tabs, it takes you to the correct tab that the url was shared from. You could consider a url shortening service that gives you shorter urls.
And to address point 3, the sharing menu is your phone’s sharing menu. The way it looks is not controlled by glide in any way.
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### Author:  [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/6 "2021-02-07T14:49:55Z")
How can I share a short url from the glide app?
However, the idea would be that the link would be composed by ‘the components of the page shared’, like in websites, it could be automatic or decided by the user, eg facebook the link will just be [facebook.com/myuniquename;](http://facebook.com/myuniquename;) in my app I could decide what component names the link, and glide would operate the connection between my custom link and the glide ‘numerical’ link.
It would be very nice, the top would be to have a preview connected to a custom image too
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/7 "2021-02-07T22:29:18Z")
Expanding on what @Eric_Penn said above,
Operating systems cache icons that way users can view the icon offline. The only way to update the icon is for the user to uninstall and then reinstall. Or to view it in a browser tab.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/3-sharing-issues/22369/8 "2021-02-07T22:59:43Z")
There might be some posts around here where people that have done it, but you would need a set column action executed somewhere in your app that would write the deep link to a sheet, then a script, zap, or integromat integration that would read that url and run it through a third party url shortening service and write the resulting short url back to the sheet.
I’m sure there’s some technical reasons for the url being as long as it is that we just don’t understand. What I do know, is that when you decode it, there’s a lot of info, such as rowid, tab number and additional app info to help it get to the right screen. It’s not just a random string of text. Like I said, it’s probably so it knows which tab and hierarchy to navigate through to get to the correct view… especially if you have multiple ways to get to the same row in the app?
> [@new Deep Links](https://community.glideapps.com/t/deep-links/15966/115):
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> Those are definitely different links, which means different data is encoded inside the link. I’m guessing part of it is to tell glide which tab to navigate to, then which list item in that tab to open. I think there is a lot to the inner workings of that link that we don’t know or realize. I suppose that since the tab is hidden, glide can’t complete the navigation into the list item of that tab and just defaults to the first tab. I also suppose that glide is building the link in a way that…
> [@Any way to store the deep link of all items?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-store-the-deep-link-of-all-items/21906):
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> Hi! I´d like to create a custom link for each store in my app and I was thinking on how to save the deep link for all of items listed on my tab “Stores” into any place. So, I can build something to create these custom links. On my tab “Stores” I have one line per store with all of it´s details (name, logo, etc). The idea is to redirect from the deep link provided by Glide to something like: [https://myappname.com/](https://myappname.com/)\ Any idea on how to handle this ?
> [@Link Shortener](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-shortener/21520):
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> Does anyone know of any integrations that can be used to shorten the link to screen link? I am looking for a solution that will automatically take the glide link to screen link and shorten it. Something like a [https://bitly.com/](https://bitly.com/) integration or something of the sort…
> [@Deep Link changes to point to a different page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/deep-link-changes-to-point-to-a-different-page/20686):
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> My app’s URL: rekomenjasa.id I created a deep link from a profile page titled “Trias Massage Jakarta” then shortened it using [https://bit.ly/RJtrias](https://bit.ly/RJtrias) so the profile owner can access it more easily. In the beginning it linked to the page correctly, but now it pointed to another profile page “Pijat Panggilan Kang Budi…” while maintaining the title of “Trias Massage Jakarta”. This results in the profile owner using and sharing the wrong profile. And now if we look up the correct profile and share …
> [@Subdomain w/ subpage?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/subdomain-w-subpage/19411):
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> For those that are experts with webservers— this one’s for you. I have a pro app with a custom domain…let’s say app.somewhere.com I have deeplinking available for my users. I can successfully navigate to a profile by going to app.somewhere.com/dl/ewAiAHQAIgA6ADgALAAiAHMAIgA6ACIAYwBsAGEAcwBzAC0AVQBzAGUAcgBzACIALAAiAHIAIgA6ACIAWABzAHgAawBIAEwAOABOAFEAaQBXAHYAawBOADIAUQA0AEkANgB0ADIAUQAiACwAIgBuACIAOgAiAEEAbABhAG4AbgBhAGgAIgB9AA%3D%3D Can I instead, somehow, create a subpage on this subdomain c…