Insert hyperlink in notes mail using UNC path. This example is from a lookup on a Novell drive, but you can change it to servernamed$ if you wnat to browse the d-drive on the server. The replace is for special danish characters.
Dim ws As New notesuiworkspace Dim session As New notessession Dim db As notesdatabase Dim uidoc As notesuidocument Dim TmpDoc As notesdocument Dim FileName As Variant Set uiDoc = ws.currentdocument Set db = session.currentdatabase Set TmpDoc = db.CreateDocument
FileName = ws.openfiledialog( False,"Please select a file", "" ,"debiteldkdkresvolumesdata", "")
On Error Goto FileSelected
If FileName = ("") Then
Exit Sub
End If
FileSelected:
TmpDoc.Sourcelist = FileName(0)
File = Evaluate("@ReplaceSubstring(Sourcelist;"" "":""ae"":""AE"":""o"":""O"":""a"":""A"";""%20"":""%E6"":""%C6"":""%F8"":""%D8"":""%E5"":""%C5"")",TmpDoc)
Stop
Call uidoc.inserttext("File:" & File(0))
Resume Next
This was first published in August 2002