Add links to local files & network shares
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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
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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
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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GC@harrisongroupuk
I can't believe this is not already a function in Clickup. Surely this is fundamental requirement?
Christian Langlois
Samething : Allow links to folders on a local machine or a network share
Troy Larsen
After seeing the age of this request and all of the up/down prioritization of it, I'm guessing that ClickUp isn't interested in implementing it for whatever reason. Might be a business model thing as they want people to store docs on their cloud. If that IS the case, I see it as short-sighted as plenty of us are still willing to pay money for everything else that ClickUp does. And it's NOT an option for me to upload/download massive graphics files. I wouldn't want to do it with tiny files either. That makes NO sense to me.
That said, I have found a CLUNKY workaround for macOS users...
Use something like HookMark (https://hookproductivity.com) to create links and then paste them directly into ClickUp locations. HOWEVER, in the CU Settings (My Settings), Plain Text Links at the very bottom must be on to keep the app from ruining the actual link. At that point, the entire link needs to be selected and opened manually. CLUNKY...
I've only started evaluating this app to use for my project management and I've been quite impressed with the exception of a few issues, this one being HUGE. Hopefully, folks at CU can recognize the importance of this issue and address it sooner vs later vs never. Other apps out there do it without issue, so it's not completely technical.
EDIT: An option that might be helpful is in the following link: https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/6329338990359-Preview-and-Edit-Website-Links
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