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Gordon_Rothman
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

My base has a field formatted for URLs. When I use automation to send the URL for a given record, how do I make that reference a clickable link in the email? It looks like I should be able to do that with Markdown, but I haven’t figured out the details. Thanks in advance!

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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...

FPX
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

@ScottWorld @kuovonne 

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

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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.

FPX
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

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

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@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.

FPX
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

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

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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 

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