How to create a link to external file

Click the folder icon to the left of the value box as shown below:

NOTE for Big Sur OS 11.x users: an Os -related glitch is being worked on. In big sure the icons, e.g. folder, globe, etc., are not drawing to screen, but if you click where they should be, the correct action should occur. IOW, clicking the ‘hidden’ folder opens a File-type attribute’s value using Finder.