Cliplink -- a utility for short, reliable links on Windows networks

What is Cliplink for

• Users wanted a way to create reliable links to files and folders on Windows network drives.
• Spaces and special characters break Outlook’s hyperlinks to network files. Clipboard-Link fixes that problem.

How do I get set up

• Get Cliplink from => GitHub.
• There is no configuration
• There are no dependencies
• No database configuration
• Save the contents of this repo to a network drive or share.
• Tell users to run setup from there.

How does it work

• Locate the file or folder on the network.
• Right-click and select Send To > clipboard-link
• Cliplink creates a safe link to the file and puts it on the Clipboard.
• Paste the link into Email, documents, etc.

To make a friendly link

• Create a link to a network file or folder with Clipboard-link and paste into a message
• Select the link part and Cut
• Select the name part between the brackets
• Select Insert menu > Hyperlink
• Paste the link in the URL box
• Click Ok
• Clipboard-link copies the file/folder name and shortened link to the clipboard

  [Engineering Documentation]                  file://F:\ENGINE~1

          ^ Name ^                               ^   link  ^

NOTE: **Cliplink will not create links for executables [files ending with EXE, COM, BAT, etc.].