I like the idea of having a url type, but wish we could either make the URL field more user friendly or leverage the button field to open links. So, the idea is that we might have external documentation or an external page of some kind to reference. As-is, the URL field shows the beginning of the U…

[image] rothnic: Support a button that just shows an icon It is possible to use an emoji for the button field name (and therefore the appearance of the button). And if you didn’t know, on Windows, holding down the Windows button and pressing period/fullstop brings up a jump list of emojis. S…

This has just popped up, so my thoughts! Sometimes it is useful to see the URL, and sometimes the text is more applicable. Perhaps a link should represent a name and a url And perhaps it could be rendered if a few different ways From a user experience point of view, the behaviour and usage of a …

I actually like the option of rendering links as buttons and hope that eventually we will have this option. However, one the things that might be a bit more straightforward to implement might be to provide a text alias. I described it in this request , which is based on Excel’s HYPERLINK function co…

I agree that link text would be a nice intermediate solution. Otherwise you just see the domain, which might be the same over and over again

Sorry to revive this old thread but this has been a constant pain point for me as we are trying to integrate fibery with our other systems. We want to be able to allow users to access other systems through links that bring up the exact information they need and passing URL parameters through formula…

Seconding this as well! I don’t know a lot about product development, but for us the benefit of something like this is massive - being able to trigger webhooks and open mailto/sms/phone links via button increases power by a LOT.

[image] billyjackson: trigger webhooks … via button It is possible to do a lot of stuff using scripts in a button automation. Have you considered/tried that? [image] billyjackson: open mailto/sms/phone links via button If you use the email field type, it should automatically open your…

I think the specific examples for simple emails or phone numbers work great as it is likely actually helpful to see the email address or phone number you are clicking. However, when you are dealing with longer URLs, that is when having the option for an alias or to render the link as a button would …

Yeah, the link is more often than not useless because the differentiator is going to be cut off in the ui most of the time. Coda.io has a really good implementation worth taking a look at, where the link has formatting options, but you can also combine the link/url field with a button for a more cus…

@rothnic Thanks for sharing. That is a really nice implementation! It would be great if fibery could have something similar. I know the button field/column type was eliminated in favour having Actions (which makes sense for batch processing). However, it would be nice if a button/action could perfo…

Better UX for Opening External URLs

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Better UX for Opening External URLs

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