Cliplink – a utility for short, reliable links on Windows networks

What is Cliplink for?

• I developed Clipboard-Link from end user need. It is a reliable method to create links to files and folders on Windows network drives.
• Spaces and special characters break Outlook’s ability to create hyperlinks to network files. Clipboard-Link eliminates that problem.

How do I get set up?

• Get Cliplink from => GitHub.
• There is no configuration
• There are no dependencies
• No database configuration
• Save the contents of this repo to a network drive or share.
• Tell users to run setup from there.

How does it work

• Locate the file or folder on the network.
• Right-click and select Send To > clipboard-link
• Cliplink creates a safe link to the file and puts it on the Clipboard.
• Paste the link into Email, documents, etc.

To make a friendly link

• Create a link to a network file or folder with Clipboard-link and paste into a message
• Select the link part and Cut
• Select the name part between the brackets
• Select Insert menu > Hyperlink
• Paste the link in the URL box
• Click Ok
• Clipboard-link copies the file / folder name and shortened link to the clipboard

  

                 [Engineering Documentation]                  file://F:\ENGINE~1 

    

                          ^ Name ^                               ^   link  ^
  

NOTE: **Cliplink will not create links for executables [files ending with .EXE, .COM, .BAT, etc.].

Who am I?

• Developed by dkurman@netsnbytes.com with lots of help and feedback. I had jobs as I.T. Manager, sysadmin, helpdesk and programmer for several companies.
• @davekurman on Twitter
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