# URL alias in formulas
**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835
**Category:** Ideas & Features
**Tags:** formulas
**Created:** [July 25, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835 "2021-07-25T22:51:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/1 "2021-07-25T22:51:36Z")
I use the formulas quite a bit as a way of connecting Fibery to other systems. However, the result includes the entire URL which sometimes can be quite long. This is specially a problem when displaying these fields in the table view. I was wondering if it is possible to add an argument when “URL” is chosen as the return type to provide an alias which is displayed in the UI instead? It would be great if the alias could also be formula based/dynamic but even a static string alias would be an improvement.
The inspiration for this is the [HYPERLINK function](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/hyperlink-function-333c7ce6-c5ae-4164-9c47-7de9b76f577f) in excel which accepts a “friendly\_name” argument.
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### Author:  [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/2 "2021-07-27T17:31:49Z")
I might be misinterpreting this, but I think this request might have similar intentions as my request for [Better UX for Opening External URLs](https://community.fibery.io/t/better-ux-for-opening-external-urls/1415). I’m essentially wanting some kind of button that tells the user what they are opening, rather than only seeing the first part of the URL. I wonder if this would solve your problem.
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### Author:  [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/3 "2021-07-27T17:37:28Z")
Your request would definitely be a more elegant solution as I was also thinking of how to display this in tables.
I think it would be good to have the option for particular cases to still just render the full URL, so perhaps there could be checkbox/switch that would enable rendering URL as a button.
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### Author:  [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/4 "2021-07-27T17:41:08Z")
Yeah, I was hoping i could work around the issue by using an action button, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to open the url via an action button. Now that I understand the scripts/action buttons are doing things on the server side, it makes sense. I think having some options on the url field for how it is displayed would be a more preferred approach as you are suggesting, and likely consistent with what people would expect.
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### Author:  [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/5 "2021-07-27T17:44:24Z")
I don’t have any votes left, so I can’t vote on your request but hopefully @mdubakov would be able to amalgamate the two requests and votes 🙂
I got to get better at searching this forum. So many great things already discussed!
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### Author:  [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/6 "2022-07-14T02:01:18Z")
Is there any feedback or update on this or @rothnic request ([Better UX for Opening External URLs](https://community.fibery.io/t/better-ux-for-opening-external-urls/1415))?
Now that [links can show up as pinned fields](https://community.fibery.io/t/changelog-june-30-2022-pinned-number-text-and-url-fields-experimental-context-reports/3014), I think having a way to shorten the fields would be quite helpful to keep the UI tidy.
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### Author:  [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/7 "2023-05-08T22:22:00Z")
Sorry to revive this old post.
I was wondering if there was any update on this (quality of life) item. I would really love to pin my formula-generated links to the top of the entities but the long links just take too much space and are not descriptive of the actual link!
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/8 "2023-12-21T13:20:54Z")
Related
> [@Add "Title" for URL type fields](https://community.fibery.io/t/add-title-for-url-type-fields/5241):
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> It would be nice to be able to set the displayed Title of a URL type field (or a Formula with URL type). This is currently supported in Rich Text links (and everywhere else on the internet), but not URL type fields. Also needed is a new Formula function to set both the Title and URL to be returned from from a URL-type Formula field.
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### Author:  [@helloitse](https://community.fibery.io/u/helloitse)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/url-alias-in-formulas/1835/9 "2024-06-18T15:00:39Z")
Any reason we don’t consolidate posts here? I know Fibery consolidates feedback on their end but it would make navigating the forums easier.