# URL type format issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-type-format-issue/141797>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 26, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-type-format-issue/141797 "2018-07-26T14:38:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@dyl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dyl)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-type-format-issue/141797/1 "2018-07-26T14:38:06Z")

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Hello Kibana community,

I try to transform a string field value to a clickable link value to be redirect on this file.

For exemple my current string type value looks like :

- FAC034MT-20180725-20180725-2125.log
- CNT024MT-20180725-20180725-1945.log
- WKF999-20180725-20180726-0016-39-1363-1362-241-2-1495931010-20180726-001651.log  
...

And this field represents a name of file into a directory.

And I would to like to click on it and to be redirect to :  
file://///lpsrvdocfld2/batchsefluidPROD/files/logs/THISVALUE

So I have set a "link" type to my string field and set "file://///lpsrvdocfld2/batchsefluidPROD/files/logs/{{value}}" to a Url template value.

But when I click on my link, it open :

[https://localhost:5601/app/file://///lpsrvdocfld2/batchsefluidPROD/files/logs/THISVALUE](https://localhost:5601/app/file://///lpsrvdocfld2/batchsefluidPROD/files/logs/THISVALUE)

.. The domain name is kept.. Is it possible to do what I want to do, that's to say to open only file:////....

Thank you

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-type-format-issue/141797/2 "2018-07-26T20:24:36Z")

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Kibana explicitly disallows using the `file:` protocol, you'll need to setup a server to serve those files and access them with http or https. If you want to file an issue to have this changed in Kibana please feel free [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)

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**Author:** ![dyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@dyl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dyl)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-type-format-issue/141797/3 "2018-07-27T07:11:17Z")

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@spalger

Thank you for your answer,

I just creating a feature request.

Thx !

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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:** [August 24, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-type-format-issue/141797/4 "2018-08-24T07:11:18Z")

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