pass field containing url to html

 
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Greetings - I saw a few people asked this previously:

I have a field (urlstring) that stores a web url (www.google.com) . table name is mylinks and the form name is Links for example...

I tried to setup a custom HTML to allow a clickable experience but its now working ...

 

<a href="#form.mylinks.urlstring#" target=_blank>test2</a>

 

is this the right approach to creating a link that a user can click to get to www.google.com?

 

thanks

 

tony 

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      So it works if I save the record and I go back since it can read the table ( since it's stored). Is there a way to read the value in the URL text field and pass it to a variable in the custom html?

      This value is also passed as a parameter... Is there a way to read this parameter and store it as a variable with a script?

       

      Cheers - Tony

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        I think the issues is that I am passing the values from a JDBC list, so there wouldn't be any record in the table unit I save/ trigger process... might have to find another way to populate the HTML from the list....

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          Thanks Ian - I am getting the following: 

          http://#form.mylinks.urlstringl# for some reason it is not passing the value of the hash variable...

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            Hi, if your form does not have a implicit record ID to be able to retrieve the appropriate row, you could try providing the correct record ID e.g. #form.tableName.fieldId[recordId]# as mentioned in Hash Variable#FormDataHashVariable.

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          It has to be an absolute URL.

          from your example, you can either :

           <a href="http://#form.mylinks.urlstring#" target=_blank>test2</a>

          or ensuring when u store a web url, you store it as an absolute URL.

          urlstring = http://www.google.com

          hope this helps

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