Linking to files on our network

[Mark Austin]

Is it possible to create a link on a page to allow us to open a document from a location on our network?

I don't want to attach the document to the page because the document is updated by various people on a daily basis but want to give a quick link in our wiki to open the document.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Mark,

you can create a link like this:

[document.abc|file:///X:/path/to/document/document.abc]

But this only works in Internet Explorer, not with Firefox.

Best regards

Thomas

[Mark Austin]

That's great, thanks.

I have also now found out that it can be used in Firefox but you have to install a plugin in Firefox.

[Radek Kantor]

Hi, can you post FF plugin link? According me, this is a security question and access is driven by web browsers, most of them not allowed this. Simply you can not link to some local file from link provided by web application like Confluence or JIRA, eg. file:///C:/path/to/document/document.txt

[Thomas Schlegel]

you're welcome :-)

If your question is answered, please mark it as answered.

Thank you and best regards

Thomas

[Mark Austin]

The firefox add-on we use here is called locallink and can be found at http://locallink.mozdev.org/. We use this already for JIRA.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Of course this is a security decision. We only use it in our internal wiki. The fileserver has its own security settings, so if the user is not allowed to see a document on our servers, he cannot open it through the wiki-link.

And of course, do not use this in an public environment !

[Radek Kantor]

locallink-0.5 not work for mee with FF 10.0.2 :(

[Thomas Schlegel]

"IE Tab" plugin should also do it. With this, you open an Internet Explorer within Firefox.

[Mark Austin]

I'm running FF 10.0.2 and it works for me but it was installed on a previous version of FF and has been updated to 10.0.2

[AnnWorley]

We have a new, comprehensive answer here:

Confluence: How to place a link to a file on a server share in a confluence page?

[Vishali]

Mark Austin,

I am using FF 18.0.1 and have add-on Locallink 0.5. I am using this link 'file:///C:/path/to/document/document.txt'.

When I use 'Open link in local context', I see a blank page, although I have access to that file. Could you please help me in fixing this?

Thanks,

[Thomas Schlegel]

you're welcome :-)

If your question is answered, please mark it as answered.

Thank you and best regards

Thomas