Creating Links to other documents

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been trying to figure out how to create a link/hyperlink to a file in our server drive for the past hour. I’ve read the Lotus Notes help topics, but I just can’t seem to understand it very well.

I’m trying to do this so that when I make a new memo, I can paste the link/hyperlink to a file on our server. Then other people who read my email can click on that link and access the same file on the server.

Please help and thanks.

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Subject: Creating Links to other documents

Can you simply enter the path to the file and use file:// to open it?

file://path/to/file/filename.xls

That should create a hyperlink to the file that would launch the file if systems are setup correctly and recipients can get to the file…

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Subject: RE: Creating Links to other documents

Thanks for the response.

I’ve already done that. But is there no way for Lotus Notes to locate a file and copy/paste as link?

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Subject: RE: Creating Links to other documents

Hi Frank

If you can relocate file in Server Data \ domino \ html \ folder then it can be directly accissible by following url

http:// + Host + “/” + filename

else you can create virtual folder (i.e. link to your file folder) in html folder and modify above url as follows

http:// + Host + “/” + filefolder +“/” + filename

This can launch file directly from link.

Hope this is what you expected…

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Subject: RE: Creating Links to other documents

I’d like to add that you should probably start by testing the path on your own, before adding it to an e-mail. Make sure you can access the files in this manner by typing the url into your browswer.

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Subject: Creating Links to other documents

Why don’t you place the file in a Notes database and reference it that way?