Links to network drives with C++ and Qt

Question

As part of an application, im trying to resolve network drive paths as a hyperlink and copy it to the clipboard by using Qt/C++. So that a user can copy the link into an email or a word document.

Example: //server/test --> should apear as a link in an email

I tried to use HTML but word and outlook do not recognize the string as a hyperlink. How do i have to encode the path string to get a link within word or outlook?

Answer 1

Proper hyperlink for your local network have to be generated using file:// protocol.

Your example:

file://server/sharename/fileorpath