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9/12/2006 8:30 PM
 
User is offline jpcastillo

Joined: 8/3/2006
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Hello everyone!
I hope someone could help me.

I'm new to this UDT. I'm trying to make a column wherein the text is a URL link.
Here are my columns:

Title        Type                      Extended Settings
=======================================
Title        Text
LinkURL   URL
LinkTitle  Calculated Column  '<a href="' + LinkURL + '">' + Title + ' </a>'

I can't make it to work.
For example,
Title=NBA
LinkURL=http://www.nba.com

I was hoping my LinkTitle should be
<a href="http://www.nba.com">NBA</a>

But it's outputting as www.nba.com>NBA with the www.nba.com part pointing to http://localhost/dotnetnuke2/rosettanet/a/tabid/244/%3Ca%20href=

It seems it's being cut on the href tag.
Am I missing something here?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Jared
 
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9/12/2006 11:33 PM
 
User is offline Stefan Cullmann


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Joined: 1/6/2005
Posts: 2760

Ok, there happens some undocumented voodoo.

During rendering time the url value doesn't contain the original url but a complete link string.

But there are some more invisible columns you can use. All url datatypes will have three columns in the underlaying dataset:

ColumnName complete link (that one which is displayed when the column is visible)
ColumnName_UDT_Url underlaying url inside link
ColumnName_UDT_Original value saved in database

So in your case the desired string for calculated column is

'<a href="' + LinkURL_UDT_Url + '">' + Title + ' </a>'

Stefan Cullmann
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9/13/2006 12:34 AM
 
User is offline jpcastillo

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Hi Stefan!
Thanks for the quick response.
You've been an absolute help!

Made it to work.
Thanks a lot!

One last thing, is there any chance that there would be a more detailed documentation in the near future that contains these kind of information?
Just hoping. It would really help us all, especially us newbies.
Thanks!

Jared
 
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9/13/2006 1:57 AM
 
User is offline Stefan Cullmann


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Sebastian will hit me that I did not include this information before

ColumName ColumnName
+ _UDT_Original		 ColumnName
+ _UDT_Value		 ColumnName
+ _UDT_Url
Boolean Image [(un)checked.gif] true'/'false' - -
Changed At Date - Localised Date -
Changed by Display Name UserName - -
Created At Date - Localised Date -
Created By Display Name UserName - -
Currency Value - - -
Date Date - Localised Date -
DateTime Date Time - Localised DateTime -
Decimal Value - - -
Download Html Link Value - Url
Email Html Link Value - mailto:Value
Expression Result of Expression - - -
Image Html Image value - Url of Image
Int32 Value - - -
String Value - - -
TextHtml Value - - -
Url Html Link value - Url

 

Stefan Cullmann
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http://www.formandlist.com
 
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9/13/2006 2:55 AM
 
User is offline jpcastillo

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hahaha.lolz.

Anyway, thanks a lot for this information.

Jared
 
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