Often via gmail I am sent an link to the location of a file on the company server, ie
afp://Client/Somename/Someothername/Bla/Bla/Bla/Hereisthefile.file
or
file:///Volumes/Client/Somename/Someothername/Bla/Bla/Bla/Hereisthefile.file
Sometimes this name is so long that it literally takes a minute to navigate to the folder. Is there a way, or a widget or software that would allow me to either click on the link, cut an past the link, so that I can navigate directly to the path? I know that gmail forbids this directly in an email, but perhaps there is a work around?
In OSX:
Triple-click the entire path to select it (not just the blue part)
Press command c to copy the link
Click anywhere on the desktop or make sure you switch to Finder
Press command k
Paste the link into the Server Address box
Press connect or enter and arrive at the folder destination.
Hope that helps!
Space Age Crystal's suggestion will work for your afp (and smb) links, but it won't work for file links.
For file links, substitute these last three steps:
Press Shift-Command-G: Shift-⌘-G
Paste the link into the Go to the Folder box
Press Go (or press the return or enter key) to arrive at the folder destination.
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We were surprised we didn't find any mention of this anywhere online, so we're posting here in hopes we find a solution.
Using an iPhone with mobile safari is when we hit this issue running the 2 easy to follow tests below, one works, one doesn't.
Here is the link
https://pwa-react.netlify.com/
Here are the 2 tests we run (both listed in the link), one works when not in PWA mode, and the other fails when in PWA mode.
Test #1: Works Perfectly (Expected Behaviour)
Visit https://pwa-react.netlify.com/ from iPhone in mobile safari
1. Make sure you have google drive on the phone but not logged in.
2. Click "Choose File". It will show you the list of options to choose from.
3. Click "Browse" to look for the photo.
4. Click "Cancel" and you're back here.
5. Click "Choose File" it will still show you the list of options to choose from.
This works perfectly in mobile safari but NOT in PWA mode below.
Test #2: Does NOT Work (Unexpected Behaviour) (PWA)
Visit https://pwa-react.netlify.com/ from iPhone in mobile safari, hit the share
button, then add to home screen. This will add the PWA app on your phone. Open App.
1. Make sure you have google drive on the phone but not logged in.
2. Click "Choose File". It will show you the list of options to choose from.
3. Click "Browse" to look for the photo.
4. When it shows you the Google Drive logo with Sign In, double click the home
button, then go back to the PWA.
5. Click "Choose File" it will NOT show you the list of options to choose from.
This is now 100% broken.
The ONLY way to fix it is to go to Settings>Safari>Clear History and Website Data (all the way down)
How can we fix this so when the user hits "Choose File" it shows the list of
options to choose from in the PWA?
Screenshot #1: These are the options that appear in Test #1 and stop appearing in Test #2
Screenshot #2: This screen allows us to cancel in Test #1 but it disappears in Test #2
Any idea how to get Test #2 to work by allowing us to choose the upload options like in Screenshot #1 without breaking the app and having to go to safari settings to clear history and website data for it to function again?
PS - Here is the repository file pwa-react/src/App.js
We were facing almost exactly the same issue in our PWA, so first, off I want to thank you for helping us narrow down the cause.
After reviewing the iOS PWA lifecycle (article here) and a couple maddening hours of trial and error I was able to figure out a solution that is semi-acceptable.
My guess at what is happening when you leave the app mid-upload (Test #2) is that there is some internal context in how iOS handles PWA's that is not being reset, so when you go back and try to upload a file again it thinks that the upload dialog is already open.
The article mentions that opening external links without target=_blank will cause the PWA context to be deleted, so when the in-app browser closes, the PWA page reloads in the standalone window. I thought that might reset the "detached upload" context, and it ended up working.
So I created a page hosted on another domain, and linked to it below our upload button in the PWA:
// not sure the target={'_self'} is necessary but not risking it
<a href={'https://externalDomain.com/reset'} target={'_self'}>
Having Issues? Reset Upload
</a>
This works decently well, minus one issue. When you click this link it opens the in-app browser, but there is no "Done" button or navigation tools for the user to know how to exit. Linking back to the PWA does not work, because iOS detects that and does not reset the app context. What I did notice was that if I navigated to another page from the first external page (I originally just tested this with google.com), the "Done" button would show up, making it obvious how to exit.
With that knowledge, I guessed that you could probably just do window.history.pushState to achieve the same effect, which works. My final solution is below. It causes the entire app to reload when the user presses Done from the in-app browser, but that's far better than having them re-add to the home screen in my opinion.
const Reset: React.FC = props => {
React.useEffect(() => {
// Redirect any wayward users who find this page from outside the PWA
if (!window.matchMedia('(display-mode: standalone)').matches) {
navigate('/');
}
// push an additional page into history
const newUrl = `${window.location.href}?reset`;
window.history.pushState({ path: newUrl }, '', newUrl);
}, []);
return (
<Grid container>
<ArrowUpIcon />
<Typography variant={'h5'}>Press done above to return to App</Typography>
<Typography variant={'body1'}>Sorry for the inconvenience!</Typography>
</Grid>
);
};
Hope this helps! Would love to hear if it works for you.
Edit After Production Testing:
An additional important note is that your "reset" page must be on a completely different domain for this to work. Ran into this today in production, because our reset page was on a subdomain with the same root as the PWA, iOS was not resetting the entire PWA lifecycle.
SUMMARY
Key Issues:
Leaving an iOS PWA while any of the "file upload" dialogs are open ('Take Photo', 'Photo Library', or 'Browse') breaks the iOS PWA lifecycle.This breakage makes it impossible for the user to open any "file upload" dialogs when clicking on a file input.
In order to fix this issue, the PWA context must be completely reset.
It seems that the only ways to reset the PWA context are to restart the phone, delete the app and re-add it to the home screen, or to open an external link.
When opening an external link, the "Done" button that closes the iOS PWA embedded browser will not show on the initial page. The user must navigate to an additional external page in order for the "Done" button to show.
External links do not trigger a reset of the PWA context reset when they have target="_blank".
Solution:
In order for the user to be able to upload files again, the PWA context must be reset. The easiest way to do this (in my opinion) is to ask them to open an external link.
(In PWA): Present a link to the user to fix the fact that the upload dialog is not showing. The link destination must be a completely unrelated domain (not a subdomain) and must have target="_self" (issue #5).
(External Page): Once the user clicks on the link and the external page opens, there will be no visible way to leave the page (issue #4). To resolve this, you can use history.pushState to simulate navigating to an additional page.
(External Page - Bonus): To make it clear to the user that the issue has been resolved, add an arrow in the top left pointing to the "Done" button (as shown in my screenshot).
i have an Excel-Sheet in which i create phone hyperlinks by vba with the format
tel:+49 1234 56789
(in the actual link there is "%20" included for spaces like this: "tel:+49%201234%2056789"). The hyperlink is working fine and clickable on a Windows PC (e.g. it opens Skype to call the number), but it also has work when I open the Excel file on an Iphone. So if i click on the number it should open the call menu.
So far i have tried using "callto:" instead of "tel:" and different phone number formatting, but nothing worked so far. A short click on an Iphone does nothing, and if I do a long click i can just copy the number.
tel is the correct protocol to use and it works.
I created a sample Excel file and manually set the link to
tel:+49%201234%2056789
When the Excel file is opened in Excel for iPhone, tap the cell with the link and then tap Link
Then tap Open
and then tap Call
Hello I have a custom URL to open an app with a link. It works in the browser. But I want to send an email that another user can click the link in the email and the app will be started. Does anybody know a solution?
It is not possible to send an email with the link (myApp://). It always shows the the link as blank text.
Or does anyone know another solution to transfer data between an app to a other users app?
I think you need to write the link in href html tag
i.e. open my app
another solution is to try to add any text after the double slash i.e. myApp://open
If you want to check if your user has Gmail (so you can switch to Gmail to send an email) you can see if they can open "googlegmail:///co?to="
Is there something equivalent for Google's new app, Google Inbox?
I tried "googleinbox:///" but it didn't work.
Is there a place where you can find these links?
Tried: http://handleopenurl.com/, but doesn't even have Gmail (EDIT now this site is dead.)
Thanks
The Info.plist in the Inbox app lists 4 URL Schemes it will respond to:
inbox-gmail
inbox-gmail-x-callback
com.google.sso.296495646338-v31uuqp2kboh7qfi8jh5oga1lk1lb5sj
com.google.sso.294296358152-6s4pqed0qa6sk3m3k2pcmsu2jidh8n5u
The last two are most likely for single sign on callbacks, and the second is probably used for returning to Inbox after Inbox itself does an [UIAppliaction openURL:] to another Google app (e.g. Google Maps). I've tested "inbox-gmail" and it does open the Inbox app.
To open Inbox and compose an email you use the same url as gmail, but without the triple forward slash:
googlegmail:///co?to={email}&subject={subject}&body={body}
inbox-gmail://co?to={email}&subject={subject}&body={body}
Here's how you can access Info.plist for Inbox or any other app on the App store
Download the app in iTunes on your Mac
Go to the "My Apps" tab, right click on the app and choose "Show in Finder"
Right click on the app file and "Open with" -> "Archive Utility"
Open the extracted folder. Open "Payload" folder.
Right click on application and choose "Show Package Contents"
You've now got access to the Info.plist for the app and all the other resources: image, sounds, .strings, etc.
In our Rails app that runs in Facebook canvas, we have a workflow where a logged in user can build a document and then download it.
When the file is ready we show a link to it. This is just a Rails action that renders using send_file in dev or head (with proper NGINX config) in production. This part works fine.
In order to have the file start downloading without opening a new browser tab, we had the link target an empty iframe.
This was working, but a while back, presumably due to a security change by Facebook, our link stopped working. The JavaScript errors show:
Refused to display document because display forbidden by X-Frame-Options.
Users can still open the link in a new tab and it will download the file and a quick fix is to make the link open a new browser tab, but that isn't as good of a user experience.
We tried changing the X-Frame-Options in the headers and/or using meta tags, but this is canvas (running in an iframe), so that just stopped those views from displaying.
I also tried this form solution, but it didn't do anything (I could have been doing it wrong).
Is there any way we can build a button or link that will start the file download without opening a new browser tab?
Do you need to set the target at all? With no target set would it not trigger a file download popup in the browser, but leave the current browser window/tab on the same content?