External URL with inline attributes

[L.Elias]

I thought I'd seen a question similar to this awhile back but I can't find it. I'm trying to create a link to an external URL like http://sharepoint/PR######/SitePages/Home.aspx. I tried to make an Action but that only seems to allow for URLs that are passing attributes in the URL query "page.asp?attribute=value" and so on, whereas I need the attribute as part of the link.I tried creating a calculated attribute to build the URL to see if that magically turned it in to a link on the form pages but even that gave a parse error

Concat("http://sharepoint/",project_code,"SitePages/Home.aspx")

Outside of a process that would generate the right string and sticking it in to a URL field, which seems like overkill, is there a simpler way to do this?

[navzjoshi00]

Are you looking for this ?

Url or Icon link to external document.

https://communities.ca.com/message/241699766#241699766

 

NJ

[L.Elias]

Sounds like TIP : How To Put Any Dynamically Generated Value On A Clarity Object is my best bet which I've definitely looked at before. This was just an idea that popped in my head so not super high on the list, but will report back if I do end up implementing.

[Anon Anon]

There is the "URL redirection" portlet as well - allowing us to hyperlink to "any" URL from within a Clarity (NSQL based) portlet

 

(This is the original discussion around that Re: URL Redirect to a Clarity Page )

[L.Elias]

Just circled back to this, found that you can place ":blank" in the Argument field to get it to only add the Value to the URL, so that part is working fine.

 

Follow up question, is there any way to make the link open in a new tab instead of a new window?

[Anon Anon]

^ thats usually a browser setting rather than in the application?

[L.Elias]

Yeah, I thought there was some JS trick with the window() function to choose tab if available, but quick googling proves that doesn't seem to be the case.

[Jaya Deepika Nalla]

The JS window.open(test, '_blank') should open your URL in a new tab if you are using HTML portlet to redirect.

Here test will be your attribute you define in the script containing the url to be redirected.