[ciapug] File linking over mapped network drives

[Chris Hettinger]

Curious,

I am listing links to PDF files on html page, the files are stored on a 
network drive that my machine has a drive mapped to (R:).

I am pulling the file path (R:\dir\) and file name (filename.pdf) from a 
database, then constructing the link to the file.

However when I click on the link nothing is happening.

I went back and added the 'file' prefix but that isn't making a 
difference. I thought of the prefix after opening a local document in a 
browser it appends 'file:///' before the file path... though I may need 
to do that.

ex: file:///R:\dir\filename.pdf

R: is the drive mapping and will be mapped the same for all of our users.

Again the issue is that clicking the link seems to trigger nothing.


Thanks for any thought on this.
-ch