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Confluence: How to place a link to a file on mapped drive in a confluence page

Gerald Britton

My team has several mapped LAN drives that we use to store various data. I want to put hotlinks to frequently-used files in a confluence page. Two examples:

On my mapped drive K:, I can access an html document in Chrome and IE using this URL:

file:///K:/Team/Projects/ProjectOne/index.html

However, if I just take this URL and put it as a link in a confluence page, when I click on it, I get a new "Untitled" tab that reads

about:blank

However, if I copy the link and paste it into a new tab, I get the page displayed as desired. What should I do so that a user can click on the file link in Confluence and get to the doc in one step?

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Thomas Schlegel

Hi @Gerald Britton,

have you tried to create the Link with the "Insert Link" function?

Add the link as a web link. This works for me.

Maybe you clicked on the link while previewing or editing the page? Then I get the same behaviour, an empty tab, untitled tab.

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Thomas Schlegel

Hi @Gerald Britton,

have you tried to create the Link with the "Insert Link" function?

Add the link as a web link. This works for me.

Maybe you clicked on the link while previewing or editing the page? Then I get the same behaviour, an empty tab, untitled tab.

Gerald Britton

yes, that's exactly what I did, I created a link. While editing, clicking the link brings me to the about:blank page. After updating the page, clicking the link does nothing at all. Copying it and pasting it to a new tab works fine, though. If I right-click on the link in the published page and select open in a new tab, I get the about:blank screen again.

Thomas Schlegel

Did you install an add-on to your Chrome-Browser? Without such an add-on, Chrome does not open file-links. We use the add-on "Enable local file links".

Gerald Britton

Oh, didn't know about that extension. That seems to work! thanks for the tip!!

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