including hyperlinks and email addresses with a text field

[neilnewman]

We have a system written in Ebase and would like the input field to allow us to include hyperlinks etc within the text.
Is there a way to do this?

[Jon]

There are two options that I can think of:

1. You can make an entire field a hyperlink by clicking the Hyperlink property of a Field Control. If you want to embed this in a larger sentence you also need to uncheck the Display label and Display help properties of the Field Control. Then you just get the field value displayed as a link.

2. Add a Hyperlink control and include a field value inside the text as &&FIELDNAME.

In both cases you can make the hyperlink either internal (fires an ebase event when clicked) or external (fires an external URL).

[neilnewman]

Hi Jon,
The hope was that the Ebase application could allow the end user to add free form text into a field which could include email addresses and links to webpages.
Rather than a dedicated hyper-link field

Thanks
Neil

[Steve James]

Hi Neil are you asking if a user can type some content in and Ebase sorts it out to be valid html?

If so have you looked at various wysiwyg editors? That is a jquery editor that stores the correct html in an Ebase field?
A number of users have used TinyMCE
http://forum.ebasetech.com/forum/viewto ... ht=wysiwyg

If it is just simple urls or emails then you could have a script to do a regex replacement and wrap found urls with the appropriate html a,href,target.

[neilnewman]

Wow thanks for the info Steve, it is a great little gem.

I see that it stores the html code with the data, when it write the data into a database record, however when I then display this data as a "read only" field rather than a writeable "text area" it fails to interpret the code and displays the html coding,.
Any pointers please as to how I get the read only fields to render the content correctly via TinyMCE.

[neilnewman]

Found the answer, I just needed to tick "field contains html"

[Steve James]

Excellent, glad it is of use.