problem with link to url

[Former Member]

Dear all,

I created a link to url ui.I gave the reference as

file://aljs003/public/gop/opm/imp/dec2001.xls

which is one of our documents system.

It is giving an error as invalid url.

How to handle this problem and how to convert this path to a valid url .

please help me.

Thanks and Regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh

Simply put the xl file in the root folder of portal server.

you can create your own folder under the root folder.and then

give that path of that file to you link to url ui element.

In the following path you can create your own folder in the portal server.

irj/go/km/docs/documents/TestFolder/Test.xls

Regards

Satyam

Edited by: Satya NarayanaReddy on Aug 19, 2008 1:20 PM

[Former Member]

try creating an http url...for that you will have to define a destination to the directory and an alias....

[Former Member]

How to do this.Can you ellaborate it.Actually there are so many record.Link to url is a column in a table for me.

[sureshmandalapu6]

Hi Rajesh,

You must have the http://<hostname>; for accessing the url iview. Do the below

Access the perticular file from browser first.

when are able to access it , then copy the address of file in address bar of browser.

now create the url iview and paste the address over there and create it.

it will work

thanks

Suresh

[Former Member]

No luck with the inputs.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I guess you requirement is to access a folder in filesystem for a particular link on your page. If this is the case then you need to specify http alias for your file system path.

eg. Your location to be accessed is C:\abc\xyz then you can map this to a http path in your visual admin like http://abc/xyz

Now, in your reference property for linktourl UI element you have to specify the http path and not the file system path.

Your http alias can be defined under Visual Admin.

Regards,

Murtuza

[Former Member]

Thanks for the reply.But my file system is not in the EP server it is some external system.Can I create an http alias for the external system .If so can you please tell me the steps to do it.

Thanks and Regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh,

I am not very sure whether you can provide a network path in your http alias or no because I only mapped for the file system path on the same machine. You can just give it a try by specifying network path
<network machine>\abc\xyz.

Regards,

Murtuza