# Make a file link clickable in a visualisation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-a-file-link-clickable-in-a-visualisation/124105>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-a-file-link-clickable-in-a-visualisation/124105 "2018-03-15T13:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![volkera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/958977/32.png) [@volkera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/volkera)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-a-file-link-clickable-in-a-visualisation/124105/1 "2018-03-15T13:44:52Z")

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Hello,

I would like to add a link to a local HTML file in a table visualisation. I don´t want to use http. After clicking the link the local HTML file should open in a new browser tab.

The content of the field is: `file:///home/...../Documents/..../...../index.html`

In the index pattern the field is defined as **type string** and **format Url** and **type Link**

In the table visualisation the (file) link is embbeded like this:  
`<a href="http://10.8.0.140:5601/app/file:///home/...../Documents/..../...../index.html" target="_blank">file:///home/...../Documents/..../...../index.html</a>`

Is there a way to prevent that Kibana is putting `href="http://10.8.0.140:5601/app` in front?  
Or is there an other better way to solve this?

Thx for your help  
Volker

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**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-a-file-link-clickable-in-a-visualisation/124105/2 "2018-03-15T19:38:54Z")

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Our URL field formatter does not appear to support local URIs like this. I would suggest opening an enhancement request issue in the Kibana Github repo.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-a-file-link-clickable-in-a-visualisation/124105/3 "2018-04-12T19:39:12Z")

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