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Julian old
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May 31, 2017
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auto-detect and transform topic urls into a hyperlink

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  • May 31, 2017
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Hi,

I am often referencing other topics on the Community by using links. I use hyperlinks as they are more clear and visually appealing.

Unfortunately, this usually involves a lot of copying & pasting, as you have to:

- copy the topic url into your reply
- click on the "?" in order to copy the BB code for hyperlinks
- paste that BB code into your reply
- copy the url and replace the dummy url in the BB code
- change the hyperlink title to match the topic title

This could become very labor-intensive if you want to include multiple hyperlinks in a comment.

So ideally, the platform should automatically identify that the link points towards a topic on the Community, and turn this:

https://community.insided.com/platform-technology-19/mentions-feature-72

into this:

@mentions feature

I think that this would be an added value to all InSided Communities.

Regards,

Julian

6 replies

Yoeri
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
December 30, 2020
Updated idea status Open → Delivered
Group Product Manager, Customer Communities
Yoeri
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
December 30, 2020

@Julian , check it out! We’ve did this via rich topic cards ;) 

 

Group Product Manager, Customer Communities
m4rc
Helper ⭐️
January 28, 2021

Hi @Yoeri These ‘rich links’ look great and really stand out. Our community members like them too, except that they’d like to use them to link to specific replies within a topic. Currently, using rich links strips out the #anchor and points to the start of the topic.

Can that be easily changed, please?

Yoeri
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
January 28, 2021

Thanks for the kind words! Looping in @Marion Frecaut who might have some more insights in this.

Group Product Manager, Customer Communities
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
January 28, 2021

Hello @m4rc we have a ticket to fix this. This should be fixed short term :). I will keep you informed

m4rc
Helper ⭐️
January 28, 2021

Thanks @Marion Frecaut that’s great news! :slight_smile: