By Sean Carney on Tuesday, 15 November 2016
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4) I did not realize that you do not have LINKS as an option for Extra fields. I am converting a site from K2 into EasyBlog but unfortunately they do provide the ability to add links as a type of field. When you select that option you are given three fields to enter data in. One field is for the Link Text. The other field is the URL field and the third is what you select how the link opens like Same Window, New Window, Classic Javascript Popup and Lightbox Popup. I am mostly concerned with the first two: Link Text and URL. They then put those together and hyperlink the Link Text with the URL.

Here is an example of the page I keep working with on my EB site but at the Starch-Smart site section that I am moving the EB if I can get the Extra Fields working:

https://www.starch-smart.com/science/disease-conditions/item/1-effects-of-a-very-low-fat-high-fiber-diet-on-serum-hormones-and-menstrual-function

Not that URL#1, URL#2, URL#3 and URL#4 are all hyperlinks of the "Link" type. The ask for three pieces of information and then create the link out of them (as described above)

Is this something that could be added to EasyBlog? I think it would be really helpful. Our other option is to paste in the big long urls. They can be really long. Here is a sample from this page:

URL#!: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229632968_Effects_of_a_very_low_fat_high_fiber_diet_on_serum_hormones_and_menstrual_function_implications_for_breast_cancer_prevention

That would not look very good in our Additional Fields! :-)

Thanks for considering this.

Sean
Thanks for your input Sean, it would be best if you can submit this feature request in our voice page so everyone can vote on it, then our developer will priority to consider to add this in the future version.
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016 10:38
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Of course if nobody votes for it then I can't really launch this section of my site. I am sorry I did not notice this before. I need these Links for sure. :-)

But, yes... I will put this into the voices page for others to see. :-)

These are the field types currently available in EasyBlog for Custom Fields:

Checkbox
Date
Radio Buttons
Dropdown
Text Box
Text Area

I would like to see Links added as well. It is essential for the project I am working on.

I also see that K2 has links and also some other extra fields as well such as:

Multi-select list
CSV data
Searchable data
Image
Header

In my project I also needed Header but did a work around where I am creating a Text box and then I ask the people entering the data to put twelve dashes in the text field. This causes the Text box label to display with the twelve dashes. So, it effectively acts like a header.

But, a better solution would be for you to also add a Header field.

Here you can see how I sort of made a hack to fake that I had a Header field:

https://www.drcarney.com/acts/medical-supervision/sep-2012-at-balcones-springs
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:39
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:-) I just submitted the idea in voices.
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:48
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Thanks submit this feature request in our voice page.

Based on what I know currently we do not have plan to add this extra custom field in major release, if you really need this feature quickly, I would recommended you request us to perform customisation for you at our helpdesk https://crm.stackideas.com , so our team will assists you on this and send you a quote for the customisation that you have requested.
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016 11:01
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Thanks Arlex,

I have put a request for a quote. I will be interested if the end result stays in the core and the improvement is available for everybody else. It sure is one more very good reason to adopt EasyBlog (among many of course).
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016 11:51
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You're welcome Sean.

I also believe our team will put into the Easyblog core file as well.
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016 13:39
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Yes, this should be underway soon. Mark is going to send me an invoice. We can resolve this ticket here.
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Thursday, 17 November 2016 04:11
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Hi there,

You are most welcome.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.
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Thursday, 17 November 2016 09:57
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