Linking to local computer files within PDF documents / pages?

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Hi,

 

Staff are wishing for non-LDAP/CMS linked staff to access files on a local shared network, and using the website/website pdf's behind a login as a portal to those documents.

I understand as a general rule this is frowned upon, and I agree. <_< However it possible in the CMS in some way?

 

Using the method of adding "file:///" at the beginning, with spaces filled with “%20” in the filenames, can work in IE.

 

PDF results:

CMS renders PDF local link with the added domain the PDFresides in every time: http://www.domain.com.au/fsww01.localdrive.xx.com.au/shared/documents/

Webpage results:
On a page, it corrects the working: file:///\\fsww01.domain.com.au\shared\documents\

to a non working; file://///fsww01.domain.com.au/shared/documents/ in most browsers.



If anyone has any suggestions that would be wonderful,

Cheers,

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Hi,

 

Staff are wishing for non-LDAP/CMS linked staff to access files on a local shared network, and using the website/website pdf's behind a login as a portal to those documents.

I understand as a general rule this is frowned upon, and I agree. <_< However it possible in the CMS in some way?

 

Using the method of adding "file:///" at the beginning, with spaces filled with “%20” in the filenames, can work in IE.

 

PDF results:

CMS renders PDF local link with the added domain the PDFresides in every time: http://www.domain.com.au/fsww01.localdrive.xx.com.au/shared/documents/

Webpage results:
On a page, it corrects the working: file:///\\fsww01.domain.com.au\shared\documents\

to a non working; file://///fsww01.domain.com.au/shared/documents/ in most browsers.

 

You say that Matrix renders the local link with added domain. How are you creating these links in HTML?

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Hi Nic, hope alls well!

 

Well the PDF based links are created internal to Microsoft Word before converstion to PDF using the Hyperlink, as the client would do, with and without the "file:///" added to the front.

 

And the html links are both hardcoded in the code view:

 

<a href="file:///\\fsww01.domain.com.au/shared/documents/" target="_blank">link to Thedrive</a>

 

And then tested adding "file:///" to the selected text link, using the WYSIWYG link tool. Kept a blank protocol drop down within that linking screen so none overrode.

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Hi Nic & Amber

 

Further to this discussion I'm having the same trouble with the slashes being swapped from backslash to forward slashes, this breaks my urls below:

https://itilweb.csu.edu.au/WebAccess/wd/search/search.rails?search_type=ServiceCatalogue&taxonomy_path=Service%20Catalogue\Staff\File%20Storage%20P%20and%20S%20drive\

 

We are linking to another application - the link goes to the application but can no longer brings up the individual entry - we have 68 catalogue entries that require this style of url webpath.

 

YEAH

I've just converted my window to RAW html - the links are staying with back slashes - but this is not ideal as our editors will not be able to the EES or SEI editors.

Will there be a fix for the WYSIWYG editor?

 

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YEAH

I've just converted my window to RAW html - the links are staying with back slashes - but this is not ideal as our editors will not be able to the EES or SEI editors.

Will there be a fix for the WYSIWYG editor?

 

I don't know of any fixes. Those slashes are Microsoft style slashes and are not standard for the web, so I am assuming that is why the WYSIWYG editor converts them because those don't work in website URLs. 

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Nic, Kel,

Sorry for the delay, thank you both for the information!

 

We have all users in the EES now, and I encourage creating and editing div properties in the content area, so thats a confirmed workaround for now.

 

Cheers :)