Inserting a link to a file (not web) location in the body of the email

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When inserting a link in the body of an email that ReportWORQ will send, the URL line expects what’s entered to be a web address (eg, SharePoint, Google Drive, etc). In order to get it to recognize a network location (ie, file on a server), the URL must be preceded by file:///. So for me, the UNC syntax is

file:///\\servername\path\file_name.xlsx

A checkbox between the URL line and the Text to display line would be a good addition to automatically add the needed file:///. Another option would be to detect it like it currently does for email addresses by adding the mailto: prefix to it.

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Andrea,
Thanks for the info on SharePoint. We do send files to SharePoint and it’s not a big deal to type file:/// for a network location. We have multiple finance groups and it seems each one wants the output a different way (SharePoint, network folder, email attachment). The suggestion above was more to help prevent fat fingering the network location prefix (file:///) and not catching it before the first run for the user.
Duane