URN links format

Marie Krátká

• October 29, 2021 13:47

Hello,

I want to better integrate geneious files with my electronic notes (in Obsidian) using links which directly open certain local file in geneious.

I found out that this should be possible using URNs. An example of my URN is "urn:local:.:1s9-e18dfu9"

I tried

geneious://urn=urn:local:.:1s9-e18dfu9

and other variations but I just can't get the link to work. What is the correct format?

Thank you for your help,

Marie

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  Tom Edwards

  • November 01, 2021 00:25

  Hi Marie, 

  The main format which Geneious recognizes was added in version 2021.0.0 and looks like this:

  geneious://prime/documents?urn=urn:local:.:5m-cb21167

  If you want to link to multiple documents you can separate each "urn=..." with an "&" symbol for example:

  geneious://prime/documents?urn=urn:local:.:5m-cb21167&urn=urn:local:.:5v-cb2116d&urn=urn:local:.:5u-cb2116c

   

  Unfortunately some older applications may not consider this format to be a link and allow you to click on it. However copy+pasting the link into a browser such as Google Chrome should work for most operating systems.

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  Tom Edwards

  • November 02, 2021 03:26

  Ahh that would make sense, I don't think we officially support the links on Ubuntu (although we are looking at changing this in the future!).

  There is a method you can use to add the geneious:// scheme to the system which when tested does seem to allow the links to work:

  Step 1: Create a file with the name and location: ~/.local/share/applications/geneiousurl.desktop, the content of this file should be: 

  [Desktop Entry]
  Encoding=UTF-8
  Version=1.0
  Type=Application
  Terminal=false
  Exec=Geneious\ Prime %u
  Name=geneious‑URL
  Comment=geneious‑URL handler
  Icon=
  Categories=Application;Network;
  MimeType=x-scheme-handler/geneious;

  Step 2 on a terminal, run the command:

  sudo update-desktop-database

  Step 3 on a terminal, run the command:

  xdg-mime default geneiousurl.desktop x-scheme-handler/geneious

  After this, the links should now be correctly handled by the operating system

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  Marie Krátká

  • November 01, 2021 14:06

  Hi Tom,

  thank you for the reply. However, I found out that this unfortunately wasn't the problem. I have Ubuntu 20.04 and it seems that the geneious:// scheme simply isn't recognized. Even the example of file import from the internet provided in the manual doesn't work for me.

   

   

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  Marie Krátká

  • November 02, 2021 09:38

  All good now!

  I had to make an additional step of adding Geneious PATH to ~/.profile, now it works.

  Thank you for your help!

   

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