Link to External Resources

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The Bonsai desktop application supports several external resource links, such as URL's. The links can appear in both the outline item's title and notes.

 

UrlReferenceWin

 

The hand cursor is displayed when the mouse is positioned over a link. Left clicking on a link will pass the link to the Windows to open. The color used for links can be configured in the Settings dialog.

 

Bonsai recognizes the following types of external resources.

 

•http://
•https://
•ftp://
•mailto:
•file:///                Drive letter based file path. "file:///C:\temp.txt".
•file:\\                UNC based file path. For example "file:\\ComputerName\ShareName\temp.txt".
•outlook:
•evernote://        Evernote entries: evernote://C:\DBs\EverNote.enb?guid=[11CAB2D8-744A-E8BA-0C144682872A7557]

 

The Insert File Link command on the Edit menu can be used to insert a properly formatted file link.

 

Spaces are not allowed within the links.  Use '%20' to represent spaces. For example; "file:///C:\Program%20Files\memo.txt". The Insert File Link command will automatically translate the spaces.

Note: Bonsai will pass the full external resource link to Windows. What Windows does with the link will depend on how you have Windows configured. Bonsai does not attempt to determine what application will handle the external resource link.