turning long URL hyperlinks into “view page”

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

No, they are also using the normal TablePress (there’s no paid version yet ?? ).

To achieve this “View Page” link, you’d have to paste this into the “Custom Commands” text field, located below the table input fields on the table’s “Edit” screen:

"columnDefs": [ {
    "targets": [ 6 ],
    "render": function ( data, type, row, meta ) {
      return '<a href="'+data+'">View Page</a>';
    }
  }
]

You would also have to turn off the Automatic URL conversion for this to work, i.e. use just the Shortcode [table id=35 /], and the fields in that column must only contain the pure URL for the link (but not yet link HTML code).

Regards,
Tobias

This worked perfectly! Thank you!!

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

Best wishes,
Tobias
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this solution is still working perfectly, but is there anyway to get it to open in a new tab? thx

Hi,

yes, that should be possible, by using the modified line

return '<a href="'+data+'" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Page</a>';

in that code.

Regards,
Tobias

worked perfectly! Thank you

Hi,

sure, no problem! Always happy to help!

Best wishes,
Tobias
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