how to make a hyperlink to a relative .txt file within arcgis pro attribute table

Question

using arcgispro, witihin a field of a row in a featureclass I am trying to define a hyperlink to a text file which is relative to my project home folder. it is my understanding we can define a hyperlink to an absolute file (whihc I can confirm works just fine, the file operns in notepad)... tidedata results however, the c:\ is not portable so is generally a really bad idea. a better approach is a relative path I have tried many variants but cannot seem to get this to work in arcgispro... tidedata results tidedata results tidedata results tidedata results I thought the external files would be relative to teh aprx file, ie in the project home folder for the life of me I cannot get this to work. would anyone have a clue how to make this work? regards

PaulKennedy1 · Answer

thanks for getting back to me.  relative URL works fine in ArcMap if we query a feature.  unfortunately this is broken in arcgispro.  such a pity, but only to be expected with arcgispro.  for the life of me I do not know how pro got out the door as a product.

the solution is to use arcmap or qgis.

RobertBorchert · Answer

I believe you are correct in the relative path part.  I believe you need absolute path.

forward slants instead of back slants.  here is an example of a hyperlink I have that opens a specific page in a specific pdf based on the file name field.

'file:///C:/MapBook/myfile.pdf#page=' + $feature.FILENAME

I will not work without a proper directory structure.

it will not know where   .\docs is

In my example you will see C:/Mapbook which is a specific folder location.  I do not think it can work with relative path names

You mention portable. A remote computer would not be able to find the C: drive on someone else's computer without using a UNC path.

You many need to load the file into your Portal or AGOL and use https to get to it.  We do that with our a number of our assets that will link direct to their Maximo data