How to email links to files and folders on other file servers

Our users currently attach files to send internally to each other. Rather than have all this duplication, we want to be able to send links to documents (eg. MS Office docs, PDFs, InDesign, etc) and links to folders.

  1. How do we create a file link in an email so the recipient can click on the link and have the document (eg. MS Office docs, PDFs, InDesign, etc) automatically open?

  2. How do we create a link to a folder in an email so the recipient can click on the link and have it automatically open the folder contents in a Windows Explorer window?

It would be great if when you were “attaching” a file, that you had a new option to insert a link to it rather than attach it. Same with folders.

We are trying to link to documents and folders stored on Linux and Netware file servers, not files on the Domino servers.

Subject: From the Sandbox

I use this code in applications. But you could modify your mail template to integrate this feature.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/ecc552f1ab6e46e4852568a90055c4cd/d44166a050dc809300256c38004aa131?OpenDocument

The new version is here:

http://www.virtualobjectives.com.au/notesdomino/linkhotspot.htm

JYR