Hyperlink to Outlook Attachment

Question

When you attach a document to an outlook email, a copy of the document is created and stored somewhere. You can obviously link to any location in the body of outlook. A hyperlink to a local document will not be useful to a recipient on another machine (without access to the local drive).

But, is there a way to hyperlink to an attached file? I don't think that there is any native way to do this, but is there any possible solution?

If it matters, the email will only be read by outlook. (i.e. intra office).

Please don't double post.... https://superuser.com/questions/1069741/link-to-outlook-attachment — FreeSoftwareServers, Nov 01 '19 at 05:10

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '16 at 23:18

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Sure, you can refer to an attachment by its content-id. Look at the code below setting the <a> tag in the HTML body and the PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID property on the attachment:

set msg = Application.CreateItem(0)
msg.To = "user@domain.demo"
msg.Subject = "test link"
msg.HTMLBody = "<html><body>click <a href=""cid:attachCid"">here</a> to open attachment</body></html>"
set attach = msg.Attachments.Add("c:\temp\test.txt")
attach.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F", "attachCid"
msg.Send

answered Apr 25 '16 at 23:18

Dmitry Streblechenko

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Amazing. I love this site. – TiredofGoogling Apr 25 '16 at 23:25
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Doesn't work in latest -- it will ask you what program you want to open cid: links with when you click the link. Guess this is no longer supported by outlook. – BrainSlugs83 Feb 02 '21 at 21:50
It absolutely works. Start a new thread and post your code. And it is not a link above - it is a DASL property name. – Dmitry Streblechenko Feb 02 '21 at 22:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '22 at 15:32

Using this code

Set msg = Application.CreateItem(0)
msg.Display
msg.To = "user@domain.demo"
msg.Subject = "test link"
msg.HTMLBody = "<html><body>click <a href=""cid:attachCid"">here</a> to open attachment</body></html>"
Set attach = msg.Attachments.Add("c:\temp\test.txt")
attach.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F", "attachCid"

As BrainSlugs83 wrote, when I run it and click on the link "here" in the mail body, I get a security notice and then I cannot continue as no fitting app is found to open the cid: link.

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Hyperlink to Outlook Attachment

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