Open local files (file://) directly by click on url link as with (http://)

[mikelprat]

Currently open a local file from Desktop is not possible and from browser is very tedious as explained on May 2017 update: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-may-feature-summary/#urlTables "If you want to use file URLs, there are some limitations. They will not open in the Power BI Desktop, only in web browsers. For most browsers, you will need to right click on the link, copy the link address, and paste the URL in a new tab" It will be great if can be improved the way to open the files in same way as with web images or files (http://).

[steven_m_kilber]

Continually asked by customers for this feature. Mailto and web links work just fine, why don't file links? We are trying to link to data standards that are relevant to what the BI is doing reporting on.

[kburckhard]

The hyperlink shows up correctly for the web URL. It's just that Power BI is blocking the action. Copying and pasting the URL works but is not an ideal solution. Please at least whitelist some file types, like images!

[mxy0huj]

This needs to be implemented....customers are asking for this repeatedly!!

[AAasheim]

Just a reminder to MicroSoft team that this is a feature that many of us still are waiting for us.

We still have a lot of files on the server we need to quickly access while looking at our reports. Having this in Power BI I could automate the whole process.

[bruno_gubler]

We need this also!!!

[info265]

I would need it too ! Please implement it finally !

[AilsaZheng1]

I just spent an hour trying to get a simple URL to work only to find out Power BI doesn't have this basic functionality and there was nothing wrong with my code.

[DZQQ1L]

Please implement this feature, makes it so much easier to interface with external applications from Power BI

[PJSupanich]

This would be a really valuable feature

[Brodie_Lloyd]

• Please all file path URLs to open from Power BI Visualisations
• Please allow folder paths to be searched and URLs to be queried in Power Query.

These are very basic but very useful core action that allow dashboards to be more usable than just a reference tool and are basic items developed in VBA that NEED to be implemented into POWER BI ASAP!!!!!

Please priorities these very basic and simple inclusions with PowerBI!