Groupwise 7 - no easier way to do this?

[wheresmybacon]

To create a working UNC path (to a file) within email, here's what I had to do:

Copy the target after bringing up properties for a shortcut you create to the file, then paste that within the body of the message. Keep in mind this shortcut is created on the fly, only for the purpose of enabling me to copy the target location.

This is the easiest way I could come up with to get my long UNC path to work. Really?

Please tell me I'm missing something. I very well may be, but even so, it shouldn't be this difficult to figure out.

 

[Nothinman]

Usually what I do is open Explorer, hit alt+d, ctrl+c and paste that path into the email then select the file, hit alt+f2, ctrl+c and paste the filename on the end. That is, if I understand what you're asking correctly...

 

[wheresmybacon]

Yeah you're getting me. This is what I tried first, before I posted, and I can't figure out what I did but it's working now. The whole issue was when I pasted the file name on the end of the path, it didn't appear to be adding it as part of the path, just some text on the end. Ultimately I think that's due to me not being able to tell the entire path was indeed intact, just behind a spell-check underline squiggly.

OK I'm happy now. I'm always pasting paths like that and I was a little unnerved it seemed like it was so convoluted in Groupwise!

My bad!

Thanks, Nothinman.

 

[Nothinman]

Yeah you're getting me. This is what I tried first, before I posted, and I can't figure out what I did but it's working now. The whole issue was when I pasted the file name on the end of the path, it didn't appear to be adding it as part of the path, just some text on the end. Ultimately I think that's due to me not being able to tell the entire path was indeed intact, just behind a spell-check underline squiggly.

OK I'm happy now. I'm always pasting paths like that and I was a little unnerved it seemed like it was so convoluted in Groupwise!

My bad!

Thanks, Nothinman.

I have no idea how Groupwise handles URLs of any kind, but at least in Outlook you can place a URL inside of < > and it'll make the whole string a link, very useful when part of the path has spaces in it.