How to link local folder

[Nils Lange]

Hello,

I'm using Jira and try to add a link to a local folder in a text-/commentbox like this:

{html}
<a href="file://LocalDisk:\Folder\Folder\Folder\">DisplayName</a>
{html}

It did not work. Either IE9 or FF18 open an explorer.

However when I copy the link and insert it to a new Tab -> IE9 opens an new Explorer Window and FF18 shows the folder content in the Tab.

Is there an other option to open a local folder or what is my mistake.

Thanks

[Torsten Weck · Accepted solution]

Due to security concerns, all Browsers disallow linking from (remote) website to local content. Thats the reason why they show the content only if you manually enter the path. However you can override this behaviour for most browsers (but i would not recommend it).

You could instead just use the Attachment function or make the files available via another webserver ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV )

also take a look at this Knowledgebase Article: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Can't+Link+to+Local+Files+from+within+JIRA

[Andrew Wright]

Slash forward  to settings restored in the future backslash is a non- strategy 

[Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_]

Check this answer:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/37192/linking-to-files-on-our-network

[dleng]

You gotta be using relative paths, e.g. <a href="/folder/folder/">

I'm not sure if you could access entire folders like this in your webserver, but you could probably create a link that links back to jira homepage via <a href="/../../jira">

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm not sure we can help until we understand what you mean by "local folder"?

The url you have given, with file:// will cause a browser to open the file system on the machine it is running on. You have configured IE9 and FF18 to try to open files with Explorer rather than internally.

I suspect what you actually mean is not "local folder", but "folder on a web server" (One reason I assume that is that you simply cannot assume that your "local folder" will exist on a client machine). If that is what you mean to do, then you need to be running something that will expose that server directory.

[Nils Lange]

I'm trying to link a folder on my local hard disk, everybody else of my team should have this folder too. So the link should open the folder on the computer of everybody else

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That sounds a little contradictory to me - "on my local hard disk" and "folder on computer of everybody else".

To clarify the requirements, I'm afraid I need to ask more questions:

1. Which one is it? Do you need to open the directory on your hard disk, and everyone opens it on your machine? Or do you mean everyone tries to open the same local path, irrespective of whether it's there, or it's contents?

2. When you say "open", what do you need to open the directory with?

[Surya Saripalli]

Is there a way where i can open the local path or its contents in  my computer itself(file browser/windows explorer) when the user clicks on the link?

Everyone can access the link and open it in their machine by clicking on the network link. ?

[Surya Saripalli]

to be more clear : I have a network group link that the user attaches to a ticket. 

If i am able to access the network group link and i am going over the ticket, can i click on the link the user put in my machine and access the network group link. Any help is appreciateD?

[codelab expert]

It is not possible to show the content of a directory using an internet browser. They don't know what to do with this information. If you want to open a file explorer you have to use vbscript in your html code.

[Nils Lange]

do you have a smal example, how to do this

[Michael Tropper]

This is not true as you can see below ... using "file:///G:/BU%20HP%20SALESINFO/" in browser path gives this:

image2016-7-25 16:31:10.png

[Mohan Avvaru]

It will open local /network folders with this link

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe", (@"folderpath"commandarg[1].Trim()));

but when I host this page it is not opening folder.