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Adding a url to an item

4/5/2006 3:46 AM

Vicenç Masanas

www.disgrafic.com
Joined: 9/16/2003

Posts: 1974

Adding a url to an item

Is there a way to add an URL to a list item? I mean, apart from file, summary, description, .... I'd like to be able to enter an URL for "more info" of some instance I'm building. Is that possible?
When viewing the item this url should be a link to whatever place the user entered.

Vicenç Masanas
Banyoles, Girona - Spain

4/5/2006 7:23 AM

Steve Fabian

Joined: 3/4/2003

Posts: 2111

Re: Adding a url to an item Modified By Steve Fabian on 4/5/2006 7:35:48 AM

Vicenc,
In the current release, you only have those options ... entering a URL in the summary or description text via the text editor. In a future release ( probably June / July ) we'll be adding user-defined fields, so at that time you will be able to define a URL field for your repository.

On second thought ... Take a look at the new 'article' template that is bundled with 3.01.09. It displays the summary field and a 'read article' link which displays the description field when clicked. All you'd have to do is enter a URL in the description field, then modify the javascript in the header.html file to redirect to that URL.

Steve Fabian
e: steve.fabian@gooddogs.com
w: http://www.gooddogs.com

4/5/2006 7:53 AM

Vicenç Masanas

www.disgrafic.com
Joined: 9/16/2003

Posts: 1974

Re: Adding a url to an item

Steve,
the problem is I need the summary and description too. Actuall I'm using a modified "articles" template.
What I tried is adding the [URL] tag to the form template then on the template.html I added:
<a href="[FILEURL]" target="_blank"><img border=0 src="[TEMPLATEIMAGEFOLDER]link.gif"> [FILEURL]</a>

If I enter a valid url (http:/...) in that field seems to work ok. Is that safe?

Vicenç Masanas
Banyoles, Girona - Spain

4/5/2006 9:19 AM

Steve Fabian

Joined: 3/4/2003

Posts: 2111

Re: Adding a url to an item

Yes, that's perfectly safe. In fact, that's very close to what the older versions of the repository used to provide when you could use the 'file' field for either a physical file or a link.

Steve Fabian
e: steve.fabian@gooddogs.com
w: http://www.gooddogs.com

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