Bold, underline, hidden links (without displaying URL) in news posts

RE: Bold, underline, hidden links (without displaying URL) in news posts

ericg329 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:38:56 GMT

Would utilizing a URL shortner work for your use case? There are plug-ins in the App Market that you may be able to leverage.

Example: community.appian.com/.../url-shortener

RE: Bold, underline, hidden links (without displaying URL) in news posts

jacobm579 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:21:36 GMT

Hey Lauren,

Sorry about that, I misread the question. This only works in SAIL.

If an email would suffice for the requirement, you could potentially use the Send E-Mail smart service and format the message in HTML.

Thanks,
Jake

RE: Bold, underline, hidden links (without displaying URL) in news posts

laurenc20 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:44:06 GMT

Hi Jake,

Thanks for this example. Has this worked for you in a news post specifically?

Lauren

RE: Bold, underline, hidden links (without displaying URL) in news posts

jacobm579 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:42:17 GMT

Hey Lauren,

There is an a!safeLink field which opens a new tab to some given uri. It can be contained in an a!richTextItem field, or any field which accepts a link as a parameter.

The following code creates a bolded link to google using an a!richTextDisplayField.

a!richTextDisplayField(
value: text: a!richTextItem(
style: "STRONG",
Text: "This is a Safe Link",
link: a!safeLink(
uri: "https://www.google.com/"
)
)
)

The safeLink field displays with a dotted underline by default, but if you'd also like to underline the text you can wrap the richTextItem in another richTextItem which has the "UNDERLINE" style.

Thanks,
Jake

RE: Bold, underline, hidden links (without displaying URL) in news posts

Colton Beck — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:30:11 GMT

Rich text is not supported for news posts. See this thread for details.

I'm not sure about hiding a link in the text. I'll try to find more information about this possibility.