Field link in form not working

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#1

Hi:D!

I have been trying to create field link on a form application,
by creating a field and use an onClick ajax event.

But then I found out that the link does not work, the link just don not appear on the form .
(the field not changing to blue and with underlining, and you cant click on it)

Is there any solution to this?

#2

Yes, create a field of type label, and apply the <a href=… text to it.

#3

Thanks for the reply !:wink:

I tried to apply the <a href=“mylink”>link</a> on the field,
but then the form just show <a href=“mylink”>link</a> in plain text.

How can I fix this?

is there any way to make a field link in this case?

Also since the onClick event doesn’t work, is there any way to make a image link in this case?

#4

Did you make the field of type label? (Not the same as having a Text field with “label field” enabled)

Re Image link you can create a field of type HTML Image

#5

yes I made it a field of type label, and if I create a field of type HTML Image, the onClick event just doesn’t work

#6

Okay - need more detail then.

For example, how are you assigning the <a href=“mylink”>link</a> to the label field? Re the Image field, what’s in your onClick event?

#7

I just assign the <a href=http://somewebsite>link</a> to the text at the field setting.
And for the onClick event, I just create it on a random field with sc_redir(“somelink”), and then that field doesn’t appear as a clickable field, just like a normal plain text field.

#8

ad1 is correct, but the field must be of type label, not the label property of type text.
Onclick is an ajax event, so it’s likely that sc_redir which is running at php level doesn’t function as ajax (javascript) is waiting for a response which doesn’t come. But I’ll try it out.

#9

Brian - so if I recreate what you say (see Pic 1 & 2)…

Pic 1

Pic 2

I get…

… which works for me - or have you set it up differently?

I’ll let Albert finish his tryout on the AJAX bit… :slight_smile:

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#10

Thanks for the reply again;)
I tried to do that in a single record form to recreate the setting above and it works,
but is there anyway to create a similar form of link in multiple records, editable grid or editable grid view?:confused:

#11

Just build the “link” in the onLoadRecord event. This assumes you are pulling data (the link itself, and friendly text) from a table as part of your form’s query (i.e those fields are in the field list, but then marked as hidden):

{link} = '<a href="' . {mylink} . '">' . {linktext} . '</a>';

where {link} is your label field, and {mylink} and {linktext} are hidden fields from your database table.

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#12

I do apologise to resurrect one and a half year old thread. But this is what I am looking for, Last reply from adz1111 is what I did at the moment, but I encountered problem when adding new record. the link value become broken since it wrapped in a input with type hidden. Can anyone help on this?

My thread question is here http://www.scriptcase.net/forum/forum/scriptcase-8/discussion-aa/62345-links-application-link-in-editable-grid-view-form-application