[#JRA-2291] Add a Link that points to an external file

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Add a Link that points to an external file

Created: 04/Sep/03 03:17 PM Updated: 07/Mar/08 05:04 AM

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Participants:	Ian Daniel [Atlassian], Scott E Washburn, Scott Farquhar [Atlassian], Tsahi Deleon and Vera T.
Since last comment:	24 weeks, 6 days ago
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In our environment we have multiple units that are responsible for maintaining documentation (specs, requirements, etc). Most of these units store their information on servers local to them.

In the current process, we have the ability to create attachments for tasks, but this causes several problems for us.

1) We do not want to store duplicate documents.
2) We would have to purchase larger harddrive systems to store all this information that is currently stored on other servers.
3) The attachments can become outdated and would require dropping them and re-attaching the new documents.

The solution we would like to see implemented is to allow us to create links (with descriptions) to external resources. Then the external units can continue to manage their documents per their process, and our users would always link to the most recent versions.

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Scott Farquhar [Atlassian] added a comment - 04/Sep/03 07:35 PM

As of JIRA 2.4, you can have links to files in comments.

Such as file:///files/

Would this suit you?

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Scott E Washburn added a comment - 05/Sep/03 07:40 AM

I was not aware you could do this in 2.4. This will work for us, its not as clean as a link section, but I'll take it.

Thanks

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Scott E Washburn added a comment - 05/Sep/03 08:01 AM

I think the link in the comments section works great if you need to document additional information and want to put relative links to external files or other users can add links with there comments, this is a great feature.

But I still feel, having a separate link section, allows for easier management of links to common files (ie. specs, requirements, etc),
this section should also have a file button that opened a file search window, this would elminate typos and speed the link creation process. I think it could be a great ehancement to the product.

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Tsahi Deleon added a comment - 20/Nov/07 07:36 AM

Hello Scott,

Using Standard Edition Version 3.6.5, I'm trying to have links to files in comments,
such as

file:///c:/temp/foo.txt,

But it doesn't work for me?

Thanks

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Ian Daniel [Atlassian] added a comment - 21/Nov/07 02:32 PM

Hi Tsahi,

I have create a support case for you: https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JSP-17677. I will follow up your issue there.

Kind regards,
Ian

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Vera T. added a comment - 07/Mar/08 05:04 AM

I would like to link to files like this: \\myServer\myFolder\myFile.pdf. Just adding the link did not do the trick. This just expands to file://myServer/myFolder/myFile.pdf which does not work.

I don't want to store duplicates of the files. So this would be a greate feature.