Add links to local files & network shares | Voters

Add links to local files & network shares

Tarun Masani

Allow links to folders on a local machine or a network share

September 18, 2018

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.

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...

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.

Giuseppe Burgio

We definitely need to link network files and folders!!!

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.

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...

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...

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. 😊

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.

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.

Ivory Engstrom

This would really help our organization so we're not duplicating content onto Clickup servers.

NyJa Stevenson

Yes, my organization needs this

Julie Runez

Please make this happen. It's the only missing piece, and not having it prevents us from being able to use our team dashboards effectively.

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