Emailing Links to Documents and Folders

You can email URLs to documents and folders that other users can open using the Laserfiche app and the client. Learn more about URLs.

Note: Laserfiche shortcuts sent via email can be opened in the Laserfiche app. For example, someone using the Windows client sends you an email with a shortcut attached. Open the email on your mobile device, press the shortcut, and the document or folder will be opened in the Laserfiche app. If someones emails you a shortcut to a Laserfiche entry, you will need to press the shortcut, open it as an XML file, then press the Open In button and select Copy to Laserfiche.

To email a link to a document or folder

  1. Swipe left on the entry you want to email a link to. If you want to email links to multiple entries, select the checkboxes next to the entries and press the Share button More Options button at the top. If you already have the document that you want to send a link to open, press the Share button at the bottom.
  2. Press Share, then Email Link.
  3. A list of the apps on your device that can send email might appear. Optionally, before selecting an email app, select if you want to use this app by default each time you email a link to a mobile document. Select the email app you want to use.
  4. The email application will open and an email will be populated containing one or more links. The links the email contains depends on what has been configured in the Email section of the Laserfiche Mobile Server Configuration page. The email can be configured to have:
    • A link for opening the document or folder in the web client.
    • A link for opening the document or folder using the Laserfiche app.

      Note: This link will not open in Internet Explorer.

    • Links to download the app from Google Play, the iTunes App Store, the Windows Store, or Windows Phone Store.
  5. Edit the email as desired.
  6. Send the email.

Learn more about opening documents from a URL.

Note: By default, when sending a document URL, the URL in the email will be configured to display image pages if any are available. If no image pages are available, the electronic document will open in your device's default application for that type of documentor you will be prompted to choose an application to open the document with. PDFs will open in the Laserfiche app. A document's text will only open when it’s the only thing that exists for that document.

Tip: See the Creating URLs help topic for more information.