From: cliveharber@...
Date: 2009-08-05T01:20:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet link to a file

As far as I am aware, you can only use absolute paths with file:///path_to_file as it is an address to a local file resource on your system, same as http://path_to_resource points to an address somewhere else in the world.

If you set up a hyperlink in Excel manually, and hover over it, you will see that it will build the link as an absolute reference. If you try to build it as a relative address, then the application can't find the file (I think).

Open to correction if somebody knows better.

Cheers
---- as <nosp@m.invalid> wrote: 
> Le Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:47:37 -0500,
> cliveharber@tesco.net a écrit :
> 
> > Spreadsheet::Link.new(url='file:///path_to_file') 
> > This should create the link 
> 
> it seems to only work for absolute path... 
> Spreadsheet::Link.new(url='file://./file') does not work
> 
> what about relative one?
> 
> -- 
> Arnaud
>