I am trying to work with the Data Tables and wondering if it is possible to have live links within a .csv load. If not, is there a format that could be used to support having live links?

I have emails in a link currently and would like to create a table with URL links in it as well.

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Hello,

If you want to convert emails in "Email" field to HTML hyperlinks then open data source settings page, set "Columns settings -> ID" parameter to Email value and populate "Columns settings -> Format" parameter with the following value:

<a href="mailto:{$value}">Email</a>

Regards,
ARI Soft

That's great. So to put a web url in, I would set the ID parameter to HTML? What would the markup be for it in the .csv?

Enter a name of a column from a CSV file in "Columns settings -> ID" parameter. For example if emails are stored in "Contact email" field then populate the parameter with Contact email value. If links (for example www.domain.com, www.link.com and etc.) are stored in ProductLink column then set "Columns settings -> ID" parameter to ProductLink value and enter the following value in "Columns settings -> Format" parameter:

<a href="{$value}">Link</a>

Regards,
ARI Soft

That is awesome and should do the trick. I hate to be a pest but I have one more question. Will it support the coding to mask a long url?

For example, I would like the link to say, Click Here for This Week's Distribution (maybe not those exact words) but the url is hyper long, api.longurl.org/v2/services&format=json&callback=foo&user-agent=Application-Name%2F3.7 (the ones we would be using would be almost 3x that long). I know in html formatting it is possible, just checking if there is specific coding necessary for this.

Thank you ever so much, this may be the solution I've been hunting for.

"Link" word will be shown instead of links for the sample code from our previous post.

Regards,
ARI Soft