Button Field Support for Multiple Links

[Zollie]

Links are messy so the ‘Open URL’ function for the new Button Field is great. Unfortunately it only supports one link at a time. So when I have a lookup or rollup pulling links from another table, we’re back to fishing through messy links instead of getting to use a button.

Ideally multiple buttons would appear - in the same way that multiple linked records can existing within one field.

Note the top ‘Open URL’ button is disabled:

[Paul_Warren]

Super cool idea! How do you expect to title the individual buttons? Currently, they have to be titled manually. Are you expecting the multi-button field to auto label them some how?

[Zollie]

Good question. Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 … would be fine for a minimum viable product. Maybe hover to reveal the full URL (not sure what the mobile equivalent to that would be).

If more specific labeling is preferred, stretch goals might be:

• one ‘Open URLs’ button, but on click, display a modal featuring the links. So it’s kind of like you’re inviting the messy links by clicking, and it’s easier to read them since it’s a larger window than some cells.
• formula property in the button field where user string interpolation can be defined
• extract the domain, then fallback to numbering when repeated domains are encountered
• forget this button business and add an editable property to the link field so that users can specify a hyperlink

[LW-SavvyIndie]

Yes please: this would be great for gallery embeds: e.g. for my album Smalltown Dreamer LP to have links to e.g. stream track & watch music video in one row rather than wasting vertical space: