There are presumably similar plugins for other browsers, but be warned: The ones I’ve found seem very susceptible to breakage following browser upgrades. xls file being opened locally in Excel on my machine – with one caveat: Doing so somehow breaks the link with the Airtable server, resulting in a “Lost connection to the server” error message and requiring a refresh of the page. In my tests, it seems to work OK, in that selecting the link within Airtable results in a Dropbox-homed. For instance, the Chrome extension LocalExplorer dynamically rewrites all “file://” URLs encountered to read “localexplorer:” “localexplorer:” URLs are then opened by a so-called “integration module” installed as part of the extension installation process. However, depending upon your browser, you may be able to install an extension that will allow it to open remotely-linked local URLs. This results in a correctly formatted URL within Airtable – but it probably still won’t work, as most modern browsers will refuse to open a local URL (e.g., a file URL) based on a link in a remote ( web page. To get around this issue, you can prepend your own protocol section to the URL: “file://C:\Users\Dropbox”. When you select the URL in Airtable, your browser then tries to access a file at the web host “C:%5CUsers%5C”, which does no one any good. That said, there is a way around it.įirst, if you simply enter a Dropbox file path (“C:\Users\Dropbox”) into an Airtable URL field, it will prepend “ to the path. Actually, you’re coming up against a built-in browser security model, rather than a deficiency in Airtable.
0 kommentar(er)
