Any attribute data type in DNG which can store hyperlinks?
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As you have discovered, there is no data type that will take a URL as text and turn it into a clickable link - this is by design for security reasons.
What I ended up doing for several of my clients was to create a custom Widget that turned the contents of an attribute into a clickable link in the side bar, which worked really well. I ended up doing this in several different ways for different clients:
- one client gave me the name of the attribute, which was the simplest
- another stored an ID for the remote system in an attribute and I had to then add that as part of a query string in a URL
- another defined a data type called URL, which was of type string, and then added attributes of that data type to artefacts. I had to then find all attributes that use the custom URL data type and display any or all as a table with clickable links
In the end it was a pretty simple Widget to create and it meant we could check the link info carefully before turning it into a URL