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Creating Custom Hypertext

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I'm trying to find a way to create custom hypertext to clean up my reports. We use text fields for people to dump their links, then we pull these fields into a report. I'm trying to find a way to turn these long links into something short like "click here". I've found I can use "value=<a href="https://google.com" target=_blank>Click Here</a>" to create a functional link, but I don't know how to insert the custom text. If this is not a feature, I think finding a way to create a custom link with conditional formatting or a new field type would be useful

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In one of the reports I use following column to convert URL field to a custom "click here":

displayname=More Info
link.url=URL
linkedname=html(URL)
textmode=true
usewidths=true
valueexpression=IF(ISBLANK({URL}),"","Click here")
valueformat=HTML

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I got it to work! Thank you so much for the suggestion. I used your structure, and substituted the "URL" in the "link.url=URL" with

link.url=customDataLabelsAsString(Custom Field Name)

 and the "URL" in the if is blank statement with my custom field to make it work. I did not need a "DE:" in the "link.url"

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Community Advisor

In one of the reports I use following column to convert URL field to a custom "click here":

displayname=More Info
link.url=URL
linkedname=html(URL)
textmode=true
usewidths=true
valueexpression=IF(ISBLANK({URL}),"","Click here")
valueformat=HTML

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Level 3

I got it to work! Thank you so much for the suggestion. I used your structure, and substituted the "URL" in the "link.url=URL" with

link.url=customDataLabelsAsString(Custom Field Name)

 and the "URL" in the if is blank statement with my custom field to make it work. I did not need a "DE:" in the "link.url"

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Here are some alternate methods as well:

Friendly URL (Using Native URL Field)

 

displayname=URL
textmode=true
valueformat=HTML
value=Click Here
link.url=html(URL)

 

 

Friendly URL (Using Custom Field)

displayname=URL
textmode=true
valueformat=HTML
value=Click Here
link.url=customDataLabelsAsString(Custom Field Name)