UNC Paths - Wiki Markup

[Martyn Houghton]

It would be really useful to be able to insert into posts, comments and timeline updates, UNC paths and be able to either manually mark them as links via the Wiki Markup or for them to be automatically be identified as clickable links. 

Cheers

Martyn

[Daniel Dekel]

Hi @Martyn Houghton,

In WiKi you can define something like [[\\SOME_PATH | some label]] and that will generate a link with the path displaying the label.

Is  that what you wanted?

Thanks,

Daniel.

[Martyn Houghton]

@Daniel Dekel

Yes indeed. I did search the Wiki bit did not see any reference to UNC, so presumes these links only applied to http URLs. 

I can indeed get them to appear as links now but having issues with the browser opening them, so not sure if that is my referencing or a browser security setting. I currently investigating this.

There does seem to be some odd behavior when entering the links into comments on a post, compared to how it works when in a post, but again I got to try replicate that as well.

We were also hoping to use the links in a custom field we have added to the organisation record, but I not sure Wiki Markup works on these type of fields.

Cheers

Martyn

[Daniel Dekel]

Hi @Martyn Houghton,

Maybe there is some restriction in the browser. I'll check this.

Regarding Custom fields, if you use Multi line Text Area, it will use WiKi to render it, but not a normal text field.

I'll come back to you.

Daniel.

[Daniel Dekel]

@Martyn Houghton,

It looks like all the new browsers are blocking local paths for security reasons.

I do not recommend doing this, but I found a flag in Chrome to unlock this. If you still want to do this you can try it here: http://www.chrome-allow-file-access-from-file.com/

Thanks,

Daniel.

[Martyn Houghton]

@Daniel Dekel

Thanks for the additionail advice. I suspect we might have to look at hosting the files as a web page or importing them into Document Manager.

Cheers

Martyn