{"id":177,"date":"2015-02-26T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/bangimportant\/?p=177"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:39:46","slug":"jslink-working-with-urls-in-sharepoint-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2015\/02\/26\/jslink-working-with-urls-in-sharepoint-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"JSLink Working with URLs in SharePoint Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About a month or so ago we were working on a client project with the requirement to create a mechanism for displaying links to URLs that were too long for hyperlink column in a SharePoint Links List (that column has a 255 character max).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution was fairly straightforward. We used JSLink to create a version of the links list that instead used the \u201cmultiple lines of text\u201d column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setup was simple enough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Create a Display Text (single line of text) column that holds the text that will be shown to the user<\/li>
  2. Create a URL column (multiple lines of text) to hold the URL itself<\/li>
  3. Use JSLink to override the Display Text column and create a hyperlink:\n <a href=\u201d[URL Column Value]\u201d>[Display Text Column Value]<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Easy enough right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But then we hit a snag, and although it was fairly minor it did give us pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Apparently in SharePoint anytime you have a value in a list that begins with the http:\/\/ or https:\/\/ prefix it gets rendered as a clickable hyperlink. In other words behind the scenes http:\/\/google.ca<\/a> becomes <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/google.ca<\/a>\u201d>http:\/\/google.ca<\/a<\/a>>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That means that instead of a nice clean output from the JSLink as shown in step 3 above we were instead getting the \u201c<a href=…\u201d output from the URL column nested inside the href=\u201d\u201d field of my hyperlink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The solution:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    A little bit of string manipulation inside the JSLink to purge out the unwanted <a> tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When SharePoint renders the links as <a> tags it uses double quotation marks for the href value. Therefore we can simply do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    var hyperlink = [JSLink code to reference your hyperlink column];\nvar linkHref = hyperlink.split('\"')[1];<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    This splits the hyperlink at the double quotation mark and then returns the 2nd<\/sup> item in the array which is the URL we want. (Remember 1 is really 2 in an array because the first item is 0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Obviously add some basic validation to ensure the Hyperlink column really does contain an <a> tag before processing and VOIL\u00c0. Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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