Add links to local files & network shares
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Maciej Rydlewicz
Clickup just ignores links to desktop applications. When I want to past in the body of Activity the link created e.g. by M-Files (which we use as on-prem documents and projects repository). The text generated by M-Files is of this kind:
M-6158 WRK-PROD - Quote SD.151996.02 my project Stat. I statyka.pdf
Desktop: m-files://show/E6D0A605-245D-496E-AF4E-2EC6E26F28B1/0-151996?object=671CE95F-4744-8B4F-93A5DF0BFD86
Mobile: m-files://show/E6D0A605-245D-496E-AF4E-2EC6E26F28B1/0-151996?object=671CE95F-4744-8B4F-93A5DF0BFD86
It looks very nice and ALL LINKS ARE ACTIVE even in ToDo by Microsoft, which is rather much primitive solution than ClickUp. Why links to desktop apps are deleted or rather wiped out? After I Ctrl+V the text above (the full text of combined link is generated by M-Files) only Classic Web section is active. Others are still kind of link but the link address is replaced with "about:blank". When you click them there is a message "App protocol "about" may not be safe. Are you sure you want to open...etc." It does not make sense. Why is it so?
Example of document link generated after I insert the composed link based on above text to Activity:
M-6158 WRK-PROD - Quote SD.151996.02 my project Stat. I statyka.pdf (Desktop, Mobile, Classic Web)
I am not sure why but only when I insert it from Clipboard when directly generated by M-Files it is very good quality like above, but Desktop and Mobile links are replaced with "about:blank". Not by Ctrl+C Ctrl+V the above text of combined link.
Whatever: the takeway is that we need Clickup to recognize desktop applications links.
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Christy Shaffer
We really need allowance for links to folders on a local machine or a network share
Alex Chatzimikes
I want to link to an obsidian note and use obsidian://open?blahblah but it just refuses to accept it either in website or markdown or wysiwig. So simple a need yet impossible to achieve.
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Alex Borzikov
Alex Chatzimikes, same here! This is so strange that obsidian:// link is absolutely correct and can be opened with browser but ClickUp just break the link and try to open about:blank...
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Yvonne - Professional
Exactly what I need to do! Copy paste and open in Explorer is a workaround, but I would love to just click and Obsidian opens.
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Giuseppe Burgio
We definitely need to link network files and folders!!!
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Jeff MacNeill
Surprised more people aren't asking for this. I would love to see this. For organizations with servers full of internal documentation that we don't want hosted on the cloud this feature would be so helpful.
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Curtis Abbott
I have been shocked that this functionality so basic to so many programs, would not yet be implemented in ClickUp. Please add this...
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Pavlentich Arhipov
it seems like crutch, but you can add a column with text area, and paste in new field smthng like file:///C:/Users/pa**du/Documents/OBSERVER_DATA/Realize.txt
then you copy this link and paste it in your documentExplorer
Nicolas Pierret
Pavlentich Arhipov we use this, which works fine as soon as you are on a list view. Once in the file, you can not copy with a single click.
And it remains any way tedious to paste then the link in Windows Explorer...
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Dennis Schlösser
Maybe https://www.linkyourfile.com/ would be a good option for everyone. (I am the developer of it)
It is a windows and mac extension for creating an https link to a local or network file / folder. You can paste the link in clickup. If you click on it the extension will launch the file or the explorer / finder.
It also has some other useful features:
Cloud provider placeholders to fix the problem with e.g. different dropbox locations on different devices.
If a file / folder can not be found you can relink it and on the next link click it will be auto detected again.
Janita Shelton
Dennis Schlösser: I tried it and it works great! Thank you. 😊
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Erik Pilon
Dennis Schlösser: You're going to be rich man. I remember in my previous company, we used to always copy/paste the location of a folder on the server to Teams to tell the individual that "this is where they need to save their files". But then they would have to copy/paste the link to the explorer tab, sometimes missing the first or last letter. A lot of copy/pasting.
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Dennis Schlösser
Erik Pilon: That's exactly one of the reasons why I built it, to avoid the annoying copy/paste of paths.
Holly Barry Bobula
Dennis Schlösser: This is amazing! I was previously using Hookmark, but one of Clickup's recent updates ruined those links since they started with hook:// and thus, Clickup strips out those links entirely. This is great that your app uses "real" links so Clickup doesn't strip out the link.
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Ivory Engstrom
This would really help our organization so we're not duplicating content onto Clickup servers.
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NyJa Stevenson
Yes, my organization needs this
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