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The [[LTC]] folks have just (April 2 2008) enabled file linking for us. This allows us to refer to files on a file share. Of course, that means the share has to be available to anyone who will be using the wiki.  
We can't link to filed on file shares from the wiki. File linking is considered unsafe by the browser makers and was disabled at that level. Happened sometime in 2010-ish.


Using this we would be able to take certain topics that we DO NOT WANT to put online, yet leave them accessible through the wiki. A contact list with real emails and phone numbers comes to mind as an example.
[[Category:Wiki use]]
 
To link to files us the syntax
 
<nowiki> [[file://<share name>]] </nowiki>
 
e.g. <nowiki>[[file://sbghnwfs0102/NSSVOL1/shared/ICU_DATA_COLLECTION/Output]] </nowiki> will become
 
[file://\\sbghnwfs0102\NSSVOL1\shared\ICU_DATA_COLLECTION\Admin\Data_Request_Forms\STB_Database_Request_Log.xls this]
[file:///sbghnwfs0102\NSSVOL1\shared\ICU_DATA_COLLECTION\Admin\Data_Request_Forms\STB_Database_Request_Log.xls this]
 
 
 
[[Category:Wiki_Usage]]

Latest revision as of 19:09, 1 October 2018

We can't link to filed on file shares from the wiki. File linking is considered unsafe by the browser makers and was disabled at that level. Happened sometime in 2010-ish.