Problem creating a link to a network folder

Question

_{Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:06 AM}

I am working with a SharePoint 2010 site. Due to not being able to utilize SharePoint Designer, I am limited to editing the site by first navigating to the SharePoint site and then selecting edit page from the site options menu.

I have a table setup and there are two cells within the table that I want to have linked to different network folders. The first cell has 'operations brief' in it, and after researching how to establish a link to a network folder, I learned that I could do it by inserting a link and pointing to . In this situation, I highlighted the text and then selected insert and link from address option. I typed in file://Y:\Operations%20Brief\2013 into the URL field. After saving the site, I tested the link and it successfully opened the network folder.

I then followed the same procedure for another network folder named Quick Reference Card. The only difference between the operations brief folder and the quick reference card folder is that the quick reference card folder has parentheses and numbers - Y:\8)Library\Quick Reference Card (QRC). I am not understanding why when I view the site out of editing mode, I can click on the operations brief folder and have it open. When I click the Quick Reference Card link, nothing happens. The text appears as a hyperlink -- it's in blue and is underlined.

I've removed the link and re-added it several times, only to get the same result. I can't figure out why one link works, and why another one doesn't even though I'm sure I created the second link the same way I created the first link.

All replies (7)

_{Thursday, August 1, 2013 1:51 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Charlie,

You have successfully created a link to “operations brief” folder, but failed to create a link to “Quick Reference Card” folder.
You can check your link path in the browser. If it can open the folder, the link is right.

Instead, check the folder if it is shared with right permission in the network.

If you have any problem, please feel free to reply.
Thanks

Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support

_{Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:52 AM}

Hi,

I have followed the same procedure what you followed, it is working as expected and both the links are working fine.  The following is the HTML SOURCE from the content editor web part.  Please verify your HTML source from the content editor part.

<p>​</p>
<p>Welcome to Operations folder <a href="file:///Y:/Operations%20Brief/2013">Operations</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///Y:/(8)Library/Quick%20Reference%20Card%20(QRC)">Quick Reference card folder</a>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>&#160;</p>

To view the content editor web part content -> click on Edit Web part -> 

And also you can try replacing 

Encoded characters for "(" with %28 and ")" with %29

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

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_{Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:58 AM}

Hi Charlie,

I understand that you have successfully created a link to “operations brief” folder, but failed to create a link to “Quick Reference Card” folder.

The parentheses and numbers should not make a difference to the link to the folder in SharePoint page.

You can try Sharing the Network Folder to everyone, then inset the shared folder path: \severName\folderName in your SharePoint page, then check result again.

If you have any problem, please feel free to reply.
Thanks

Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support

_{Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:16 PM}

This is not working out as far as trying to create a link to a network folder and trying to create a link to a document. I have two network folders to be linked, one works and one doesn't. I have two documents I want to link. One works and one doesn't. I really don't understand why it isn't working. Below is the link established for quick reference, which is not clickable. A link to a different folder (operations brief) was done the same way as the example below, and it works just fine. I discovered that I need to leave out the drive letter as some users don't have the folder (Library/Quick Response Cards (QRCs) mapped to a network drive.

file://servername/Shared Folders/SECTOR%20NY/SECTOR%20COMMAND%20CENTER/SCC/(8)%20LIBRARY/QUICK%20RESPONSE%20CARDS%20(QRCs

As far as the documents, both are uploaded to the SharePoint Shared documents. I highlighted the text and selected insert link from Sharepoint. I navigated to shared documents and selected the desired file. I did the same step a second time, and yet it doesn't work.

_{Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:50 AM}

I am still needing assistance with this issue.

_{Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:00 AM}

I've been meaning to come back and update this post.

I was able to get the link to work, but only after I had someone remotely connect to the page I am working on and take a look at the code. The problem was with the way sharepoint was creating a table. I created a 3 x 3 table, and while inserting text to be linked into each table cell, somehow extra table code. I believe it was either extra td or tr tags that were being created by SharePoint which caused the links to not work.

I may have a need to utilize additional tables on the site, and would like to know the easiest way to have more control over the table as far as ensuring that extra table tags don't get inserted and ensuring that the cell width doesn't become twice the size it needs to be for the text being inserted.

_{Thursday, March 19, 2015 2:39 AM}

Hi

On Sharepoint 2013 i use this code to link to share network drive which is quite similar to yours:

file:///P:/folder1/insiderfolder

to do that i use the insert

hope it helps