Where url is The full URL of the link location enclosed in quotation marks, or a reference to a cell containing such a URL.
and link_label - loptional] is the text to display in the cell as the link, enclosed in quotation marks, or a reference to a cell containing such a label.
It would be helpful if airtable could do this too.
My use case: Zapier finds new google docs in a special folder and adds records to an airtable which includes TITLE and URL. I have a view of that table that is embedded on my internal google site so that all new content in that folder (medical protocols) are available to my staff. It would be quite nice to have one field (a clickable link) rather than two - the title and an ugly url.
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I can’t move most of my GSheets to Airtable until this is supported. Three main reasons:
Having a string placeholder for a URL is simply easier to understand and friendly to look at
It makes collaboration easier, as people don’t need to recognise a URL, they simply see this is an “Article” url, or “Doc” url.
Right now without hyperlink, you can’t import URLs from GSheets as it loses all the links you’ve added
I can’t wait for this to be added, it’s really the last missing piece for me to switch to Airtables extensively.
This is an important feature for us as well, to allow linking back to an app based on ID.
I would really like this feature as well. This will allow for more user-friendly looking shared tables.
I.e. If I have a public base/table, visitors can see “Visit Website” or “Open Article” instead of a long or ugly url. Plus, as your suggestion is a formula, it would allow combinations with IF() functions to get display text customized for each record.
Would love a hyperlink feature!! Would make the page renderings so much greater
1 for this! Desperately needed.
Yes, please add hyperlinks!!!
100% this. Despite all the fancy bells and whistles I love about Airtable, this missing feature is keeping my team and I chained to Google Docs.
real question not trolling, how does the URL field or formula field not serve your needs? I use URL fields and formula fields to dynamic generate clickable URLs constantly. I’m misunderstanding your needs I think.
real question not trolling, how does the URL field or formula field not serve your needs? I use URL fields and formula fields to dynamic generate clickable URLs constantly. I’m misunderstanding your needs I think.
For me, its an aesthetics thing. I’d rather have Open Article be in visible than https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/2/14797866/los-angeles-rams-stadium-construction-chargers-inglewood
I’m using the URL field but I’d prefer to add a URL to any plain text. Is this really not possible?
real question not trolling, how does the URL field or formula field not serve your needs? I use URL fields and formula fields to dynamic generate clickable URLs constantly. I’m misunderstanding your needs I think.
Because I have complex spreadsheets I use to manage articles, and each row has around 4 links. If these are raw links the document is almost unusable, but if you can turn the links into “Doc”, “Article”, “Admin”, “Images”, etc, then you can easily comprehend what each column is for as you’re using it. You can also see which words are linked, and which have not been linked yet.
I’m surprised there’s no word on this over 6 months later, seems like a no brainer feature to add?
Absolutely need this to hide the confusing form prefill URLs.
In complete agreement with everything here. Would love to see this feature added. My eyes need things to look cleaner!
I’ve contacted AirTable asking them to provide an official response on this. Would be great to know if it’s being considered (or not), or maybe it’s even in development already.
I have spreadsheets with hundreds of rows using “Hyperlink”, and the import feature strips the link data, so right now it’s impossible for me to move these from GSheets to Airtable.
I contacted Airtable and got a update, TL;DR they’re probably working on it
Thanks for reaching out about this! At the moment, we don’t have a way to allow custom (markdown/html) formatting of a link—the url will always be shown in its full form. However, this is something we’re keenly aware of the importance of, for use cases exactly like yours. To that end, we’re working on something that would unblock this. While that’s not likely to solve your immediate problem (the workaround, as you note, is to use a url field), it may help you in the longer term. That said, as a general rule, we don’t share public timelines for features we’re working on, or specific details about our decision making process around how we’ve prioritized certain features over others. Rest assured that we spend a lot of time reviewing requests from the community, talking to our users, thinking deeply about what will add the most value for them, and working to implement quickly as we can. While I am sympathetic to the fact that it can seem like we’re not paying attention or prioritizing the most important or obvious features, I promise you we spend a lot of time thinking this through.
I really need this as well! The ability to add a hyperlink instead of the full link address would make this way easier for my staff to read, especially since some of them are so long and it looks terrible.
Is this possible yet?
I’d like a real hyperlink option in the Short Text or Long Text field types.
I contacted Airtable and got a update, TL;DR they’re probably working on it
Thanks for reaching out about this! At the moment, we don’t have a way to allow custom (markdown/html) formatting of a link—the url will always be shown in its full form. However, this is something we’re keenly aware of the importance of, for use cases exactly like yours. To that end, we’re working on something that would unblock this. While that’s not likely to solve your immediate problem (the workaround, as you note, is to use a url field), it may help you in the longer term. That said, as a general rule, we don’t share public timelines for features we’re working on, or specific details about our decision making process around how we’ve prioritized certain features over others. Rest assured that we spend a lot of time reviewing requests from the community, talking to our users, thinking deeply about what will add the most value for them, and working to implement quickly as we can. While I am sympathetic to the fact that it can seem like we’re not paying attention or prioritizing the most important or obvious features, I promise you we spend a lot of time thinking this through.
This paragraph should be pinned to the top of this category in its own post, as I’m sure it probably applies to just about every request.
I’d like a real hyperlink option in the Short Text or Long Text field types.
Google sheets goes farther than this. Even numerical fields can be hyperlinks. I have sheets where almost every field is a hyperlink. Some fields are short text, some long text, some numbers (with math like sums performed on them), some categorical (which is just text in G-Sheets).
Every field should be able to be an http hyperlink to an external web page.
Google sheets goes farther than this. Even numerical fields can be hyperlinks. I have sheets where almost every field is a hyperlink. Some fields are short text, some long text, some numbers (with math like sums performed on them), some categorical (which is just text in G-Sheets).
Every field should be able to be an http hyperlink to an external web page.
Fields in Airtable operate very, very differently than cells in Sheets do. Adding hyperlink support beyond Formula fields and Short/Long Text fields would be nice, but I don’t think literally every field should have a hyperlink function; that would literally break the functionality of Link to Another Record, Lookups, Checkboxes, etc.
I have a lot of spreadsheets that I’d love to import into Airtable, but they contain hyperlinks.
When I convert these spreadsheets to .csv (so that I can import them into Airtable), the hyperlinks get flattened - the text is retained but I lose all the URL data.
It would be great if Airtable could handle this in some way so that the hyperlink data is retained, even if it split it out nto two cells (note: I could possibly copy and paste this data straight into Google Sheets, and go from there, retaining the hyperlinks … just need Airtable to be able to handle them!)
I have a lot of spreadsheets that I’d love to import into Airtable, but they contain hyperlinks.
When I convert these spreadsheets to .csv (so that I can import them into Airtable), the hyperlinks get flattened - the text is retained but I lose all the URL data.
It would be great if Airtable could handle this in some way so that the hyperlink data is retained, even if it split it out nto two cells (note: I could possibly copy and paste this data straight into Google Sheets, and go from there, retaining the hyperlinks … just need Airtable to be able to handle them!)
@Neil_Webb Airtable would need to add support for Excel files for that to work. When Excel exports a file as .CSV, it loses all formatting info including the original link for any program trying to open it. CSV files are a “what you see is what you get” file type, so to speak, in that regard.
I am in favor of adding support for importing from Excel files (.xls) directly, which may solve maintaining hyperlink data.
This paragraph should be pinned to the top of this category in its own post, as I’m sure it probably applies to just about every request.
I’ve only been using airtable for a few hours and already found 2 thinks I think are essential that can’t be done… this and wrapping column headers… I may not go further with the product…
I’d love to see this one get implemented—many of my grids need to be exported and reformatted for this reason.
