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Look at the support page for Markdown in Airtable.

The syntax for a markdown link is

[text to display](https://my.url.com)

[text to display](https://my.url.com)

Hi Kuovonne. I’m sorry, I don’t understand. I don’t have a static URL; I want my email automation to use whatever URL is in the URL field for a given record and send that as a hyperlink in the email. How do I apply this, please?

When you compose your email in the automation, include the field with the url inside the parentheses for the url.

thanks! I’ll give that a shot

Thanks again for your help. The URL appears, but it’s not as a hyperlink; just as text.

If I just insert the field into the email (no markdown at all), it always shows up as a clickable link on my receiving end. However, it’s possible that this is a result of my different email clients (Apple Mail, Gmail app for iOS) interpreting the URL and turning it into a link, so this might not actually be the solution. What email client are you using for receiving?

Try sharing some screen shots of your automation configuration, your record data, and what the email preview looks like.

Be sure to retest each each step of the automation, including the trigger.

I’m receiving on MS Outlook

These should be snapshots of the Automation Action field, the URL field in the base, and the email received when triggered. I tried it with and without the Markdown syntax. Thanks for your help!

Markdown is different than HTML. It is formatted like this:
[Click on this link to go to Apple’s website](https://www.apple.com)

Airtable supports limited HTML tags. If you’d like to use full HTML tags in your email, I would highly recommend using Make’s advanced automations and integrations for Airtable.

All of Make’s email modules support full HTML.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread.

For example, here is how you would instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable by using a custom webhook.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances here.

For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable attachment arrays in Make.

.Hope this helps!

— ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

YES!!! Thank you ScottWorld and Kuovonne!!

I've tried this, but when I click on the URL in the email preview it brings me to a broken airtable site, instead of the actual URL...

@ScottWorld @kuovonne 

Any idea what I am doing wrong? I cant seem to shorten the hyperlink. I am using outlook email 

FPX, You are including a list of URLs, not a single URL. The syntax for a markdown link only works with a single URL. See this thread for more info.

@kuovonne - Thanks for this. I seem to be missing something...Can you please see why nothing is populating below?

@kuovonne - Thanks for this. I seem to be missing something...Can you please see why nothing is populating below?

I don't see any issues with your formula field. Does the formula field show a value in a data grid view?

I'm not sure how the second screen shot relates. In order to use the formula field, you need to include a list of field values for the formula field, not a list of records. You may also need to retest the automation, starting from the trigger, to get values to show up.

Thanks Kuovonne, i wasnt doing the list of field values so is populating now as per below screenshot.

However, the above is no use for me without the link referencing the information against each columns so how would I make the formula work within the grid view please? See below