Insert link enhancements
Would be great to have the Nintex interface provide the option to set the Open in New Window option like standard SharePoint rich text editor does. Also, the Nintex Insert Link option doesn't keep the text you've highlighted prior to selecting to insert a link. Means retyping the link text a second time if you've already typed it out in the body of your content.
Anonymous
shared this idea
Thanks for your suggestion. In Universal Forms, the Label control (which includes Rich Text) allows you to insert a link. All links will now open in a new browser tab.
If there is something else you would like to see, please let me know in the comments section below.
Cheers,
Euan
6 comments
-
M Odendaal
commented
Hi all. Please tell me there's a solution for this by now! I'm running Nintex forms & workflow 2013 on prem, and Nintex keeps stripping out my "target=_blank" tags in my form description fields (workflow forms, not list forms). I then tried adding a custom style to the links in question and forcing a new attribute for "target", but Nintex strips out my custom class names as well. then I tried using custom IDs - still no joy. this time it didn't strip out the id, but it still wouldn't take the new attribute. Surely this isn't supposed to be this frustrating??!!??!!
Any help will be appreciated, thanks
-
daveg00
commented
This is great for a link, but for a pdf attachment it seems to insist on opening in the same window after trying Samuel's work around. Any other ideas please
-
Anonymous
commented
You don't need to use JavaScript, custom CSS classes, or label control. You can use a Rich Text control, edit the source, and add the link manually:
<a href="/site/subsite/document.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline;">
However, having the option to simply tick a check box is much more desirable ;)
-
Samuel Ledresseur
commented
Hi all, I fully agree. I found this work around :
1° use label control to display link (via Insert link)
2° set a custom css class (ex: lblLink)
3° In form setting, add following custom javascript :NWF.FormFiller.Events.RegisterAfterReady(function () {
NWF$(".lblLink a").attr("target","_blank");
});remember: .lblLink is the custom css class name you set to the label control.
-
Anonymous
commented
I agree. It is very frustrating to have to add additional text in the forms to tell users to click the BACK button after they have clicked on the web link. So many just close the tab and lose the form data!!! It would be so much simpler to allow the link to open a new window, especially if the link is an instruction page for the current form
-
Gavin Adams
commented
This is a constant problems on the forms that I develop. Often we want to have a link to open a PDF document (eg a policy). If I try to edit the HTML within the control and add target=blank it will be stripped out when saving.
Please add an option similar to sharepoint which let you select that the link can be opened and editing the link would also be great.