Is there a way to link to a UNC Path? Example: \\servername\folder\subfolder\file.doc

It seems the built in [URL] only "allows" http: and https:

I had an issue where we wanted to link to a UNC folder on our internal network. The format needed to be file://uncpath/whatever for it to work. The [URL] tag converted this to http://file//uncpath/whatever which of course failed.

My quick & dirty workaround was to add a custom BBCode Extension (v1.9.3 of YAF). I called it [ANYURL], which basically accepts anything at all and makes it into a hyperlink.

Under Admin / BBCode Extensions:

1. Click Add
2. Name = ANYURL
3. Exec Order = 1
4. Description = [ANYURL]whatever[/ANYURL]
5. Search Regex = \[anyurl\](?.+)\[\/anyurl\]
6. Replace Regex = ${inner}
7. Save

Now I just [anyurl]file://uncpath/whatever[/anyurl] and it works just fine. Only downside is I can't add flavor text to it - I'm not enough of a RegEx guru to figure out how to do that. :oops:

Thanks--just what I needed.

Here is how to make decorative text for the URL

1. Click Add
2. Name = ANYURL
3. Exec Order = 1
4. Description = [ANYURL="anyurl"]text[/ANYURL] (does not prepend http://)
5. Search Regex = \[anyurl\=(?.+?)\](?.+?)\[\/anyurl\]
6. Replace Regex = ${inner}
7. Replace Variables = url;inner
8. Save