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Linking to shortcuts

I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the client
workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the question well enough
to get any good responses. I saw it on another site where the hyperlink
pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access application, so I know it can
be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

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Regards,

Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since Jan 2000

Jul 24 '07 #1
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I don't know how you could expect to do this unless your link contained a
FILE:/// directive.
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"Mike D" wrote:
I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the client
workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the question well enough
to get any good responses. I saw it on another site where the hyperlink
pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access application, so I know it can
be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

--
Regards,

Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since Jan 2000
Jul 24 '07 #2
Any links we've established work just fine placing the UNC path as the HREF
link.

<a href="\\server\shared\">Open Shared Directory</a>

I'm assuming executables would work similar; however, depending on the browser,
it'd prompt to "Run/Save" or something similar. What methods have you tried?

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David R. Longnecker
http://blog.tiredstudent.com
I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the
client workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the
question well enough to get any good responses. I saw it on another
site where the hyperlink pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access
application, so I know it can be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since
Jan 2000

Jul 24 '07 #3
I have only tried to link to the shortcut, but it doesn't seem to work once
the page is published to the web server. I didn't try the UNC, but will when
I get back to work tomorrow. Thanks.
--
Regards,

Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007
"David R. Longnecker" wrote:
Any links we've established work just fine placing the UNC path as the HREF
link.

<a href="\\server\shared\">Open Shared Directory</a>

I'm assuming executables would work similar; however, depending on the browser,
it'd prompt to "Run/Save" or something similar. What methods have you tried?

--
David R. Longnecker
http://blog.tiredstudent.com
I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the
client workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the
question well enough to get any good responses. I saw it on another
site where the hyperlink pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access
application, so I know it can be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since
Jan 2000


Jul 24 '07 #4

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