How do I keep Asana from altering my URLs in links?

[Mark_Mynsted]

I keep adding URLs and when the URL is part of a URL scheme rather than a web URL like https://, Asana alters the URL, breaking it.

Example:
The following URL is valid on my machine and when clicked directs to a particular document in DEVONthink.

x-devonthink-item://4ECB0185-3053-4C40-B98E-F1BACC6CED49

Asana keeps changing the URL to

https://x-devonthink-item//4ECB0185-3053-4C40-B98E-F1BACC6CED49

That is not correct and is thus rendered non-functional.

[Patrick_O_Donnell]

Link to file system instead of https

The solution to this may be obvious but I can’t come up with it. I’m trying to insert a hyperlink to a file or place in our windows filesystem in a task description. For example I’d like to reference a document at the location: file:///V:/mydirectory/myfile.docx Browsers handle this type of link with ease, but when I try to insert a link, Asana keeps prepending https:// to my url and I end up with a link to: https://file:///V:/mydirectory/myfile.docx Which is useless. I can paste the tex…

[Bill_Pataky]

The answer I got is the good folks at Asana consider users putting file paths as comments to tasks to be a security risk and they prevent us from doing exactly what you and I want to do on purpose.

I could see allowing folks to restrict what paths could be posted to exclude executables or certain drives, but I can’t see any reason not to be able to post a link to a shared drive that is used for document storage only in the context of a task.

I’d really like to see this fixed.

As a CIO, I’d rather not have my software provider decide they’ll be my security nanny in areas like this but that’s what they told me.