# Better UX for Opening External URLs

**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/better-ux-for-opening-external-urls/1415
**Category:** Ideas & Features
**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/better-ux-for-opening-external-urls/1415 "2021-03-01T15:24:24Z")
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### Author: ![cannibalflea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/cannibalflea/32/318_2.png) [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2022, 7:14am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/better-ux-for-opening-external-urls/1415/5 "2022-02-18T07:14:22Z")

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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](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835), which is based on [Excel’s HYPERLINK function](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/hyperlink-function-333c7ce6-c5ae-4164-9c47-7de9b76f577f) could be overridden with a simple text alias.

I find this very helpful for really long URLs, particularly anything generated by formulas. URL encoding things and building outside tools has been one of the ways I get around some of fibery’s limitations. Having an option like this would greatly enhance the look and function of the link formulas for me.

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