Hi, The AR Server should never need to access the files themselves, this is something that should be handled on the client side. They have various ways to manage these filed and their access permissions.
The thing I want to store is the name/link/url to the files. I have tried the plain RTF way, and this is kind of awkward with a few copy/paste steps involved to get it right. 1. First browse to the file in the Windows File Explorer 2. Press ctrl-l and copy the path with ctrl-c 3. Paste the path into the RTF-field 4. Type a trailing backslash into the RTF-field 5. Mark the file in Windows File Explorer and press F3 to then copy the file name with ctrl-c 6. Paste the file name into the RTF-field (add the file extension .gif manually as my Windows File Explorer did not show it by default) 7. Mark the total pathfile-name 8. Press the RTF-field-button to make a LINK 9. Choose protocol 10. Paste the total pathfiel-name into the designated field 11. Save the data This process is not something that users want to do over and over... And there also seems to be some security limitation in the Chrome browser I use that prevents me from actually following this link. Using a normal file selection box triggered from the browser will not solve anything either, as the full path will not be something I can access using for example javascript. I presume the 11 steps above can be simplified to some extend if they just paste the individual parts (path + filename) into text fields, and that I then construct the underlying link with a Set-Fields and store it in an RTF-field. I was just hoping that there was a simpler way. Maybe some magic key combination in Windows to copy the full path to a file. This at least would help to some extent... Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (http://www.rrr.se) (ARSList MVP 2011) Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13) * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se (http://rrr.se) January 16, 2019 12:45 PM, "Fawver, Dustin" wrote: I disagree with the AWS suggestion. It creates significant file management overhead, especially at the beginning. There could be additional costs. One would also have to have a way of keeping those files synchronized. The issue is not one of making the files easily accessible to the AR server. It’s making the AR server a convenient gateway for users to quickly locate and access certain files, instead of having to navigate through something like File Explorer in Windows. If the AR server doesn’t have access to the file servers themselves, I don’t think that the view field would work, as the file server’s OS would deny it access. I am presuming that file security will simply be handled at the OS-level. Misi, will you need to have ARS control what different users see depending upon their group membership? Dustin Fawver Sr. Help Desk Technician Information Technology Services P: 423-439-4648 [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) (http://www.etsu.edu/helpdesk) From: ARSList On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 4:49 AM To: ARSList Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Letting users link to external files You can always dump your files in an AWS S3 bucket and set appropriate general access permissions. You can then just hyperlink to the files in question. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 16, 2019, at 4:27 AM, Misi Mladoniczky wrote: Hi, No, that is not what is needed. There are a lot of different permissions on the file system level, and we can not have the AR server access the file servers. I just want to have an easy way to pick a file/path (or copy/paste it) into a Remedy form, and then be able to display this as a clickable link (or have a button to open it). It would also be nice if the file could be loaded for preview in a View Field on request... Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rrr.se&c=E,1,u5_y3ROAsWsSMfGef8d6fG-T07CdXwp09gNeEnp1QX1M43TD7KdlL41X_6SsGbTvaZfnyjRnTl4ZwPIkcePbU5aRUDRr-bSfLz57qSQFR6uIuHFVJdj_Ng,,&typo=1) (ARSList MVP 2011) Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13) * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se (https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2frrr.se&c=E,1,nN9lAR4sbaMGYdtnsEMtP0O-_JMSFcBLSH_Wh6H6HyUDk4pjbxOnczM6IJ-QuxGGXdCXLoV580A_nNJw_I1AEtDiYoW82-KJ5FRq3eBSIXwi-pLg&typo=1) January 15, 2019 1:52 PM, "LJ LongWing" wrote: I have a file system ardbc plugin I've been working on that would work well to enable that activity. On January 15, 2019 5:37:54 AM "Misi Mladoniczky" wrote: Hi, What would be good ways to allow users to enter a link to an external file or directory in the file system, and then allow other users follow these links to open the files/directories? The interface would be Mid-Tier. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rrr.se&c=E,1,vHvwugcly7NdLE7CtKUtnwWVErJJI9yBVmvCGlsh6Z7cycn-5dO9yFauDdYWDb6FzaWxY9xEbOZwsuV8XOnyl0EUjERcHuMbrIwfc79mG8sETGkGIq-qo59B&typo=1) (ARSList MVP 2011) Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13) * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? 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