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How to add an extra field as an external link

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13 years 8 months ago #92091 by Luis Martin
Hello, I'm new to K2 and I'm still walking my first steps on it, even though I've been using Joomla for 2 years. I admit I had to pay more attention to this exciting extension earlier than I did.

 

There's something I need to do but I don't know how:

there are certain category items which are related to an external gallery. I don't want to use the built-in K2 gallery (because the galleries must be created in another site). So what I simply need for each item is a link to its corresponding gallery.


What I first tried was to add an extra field called "gallery URL" of type "textfield" for this category, and when a new item is created, fill in the field with the external URL, but the URL is displayed as plain text, not as a link.

 

As I've checked, a work around would be to enter the html hyperlink using the <a> tag, but these items must be created by editors who don't know about HTML, plus it might get a little tedious for them to add HTML instead of just doing a copy-paste of the URL.

 

So, is there any way to automatically do this?

 

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13 years 8 months ago #92092 by Luis Martin
Replied by Luis Martin on topic How to add an extra field as an external link
Ooops! Problem solved! I didn't notice the "link" type for the extra field.

The only thing left to say: this extension absolutely rocks!!

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