New at RTC...Creating HTML Links in Description?
I am creating tasks in RTC and I'd like to be able to create hyperlinks within the Description.
How to? Thanks, Ray |
8 answers
Hi Ray,
which client are you using? I just checked the web client. When you <edit> the description, you get a rich editor which has a little icon "man with chain" in the upper right corner. Hitting that icon you will see the options for adding link, work item link or external link. Is that what you are looking for? If you type http://xxxxxx in a description, RTC will pick up that this is an external link and mark it as such. In Eclipse this happens instantly, in the web editor you need to save before it is recognized as link. |
Hi Ray, I am using Eclipse. I have a lot of hyperlinks in a word document that I'd like to import into the Description area of the Task. Can I do that easily? Thanks again. Ray |
Hi Ray, I am using Eclipse. I have a lot of hyperlinks in a word document that I'd like to import into the Description area of the Task. Can I do that easily? Thanks again. Ray Well, there doesn't seem to be a solution so I am temporarily adding the hyperlinks as artifacts. It's somewhat time consuming though. I'd much rather be able to cut and past hyperlinks into the Description. Ray |
Ralph Schoon (63.4k●3●36●46)
| answered Mar 21 '11, 6:33 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
Hi, I don't understand the issue. If I paste a URL for example "http://jazz.net" into the description it is recognized as URL.
I couldn't figure how to show a different text for the URL. Thanks, Ralph Hi Ray, I am using Eclipse. I have a lot of hyperlinks in a word document that I'd like to import into the Description area of the Task. Can I do that easily? Thanks again. Ray Well, there doesn't seem to be a solution so I am temporarily adding the hyperlinks as artifacts. It's somewhat time consuming though. I'd much rather be able to cut and past hyperlinks into the Description. Ray |
Hi, I don't understand the issue. If I paste a URL for example "http://jazz.net" into the description it is recognized as URL. Hi Ray, I am using Eclipse. I have a lot of hyperlinks in a word document that I'd like to import into the Description area of the Task. Can I do that easily? Thanks again. Ray Well, there doesn't seem to be a solution so I am temporarily adding the hyperlinks as artifacts. It's somewhat time consuming though. I'd much rather be able to cut and past hyperlinks into the Description. Ray The issue is Hyperlinks. When I cut or copy a Hyperlink then paste into the Description area of Ecllipse, it pastes as text only with no link. Ray |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Mar 21 '11, 2:20 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
To paste a Word hyperlink into the work item description, you need to
select that hyperlink, right click and select the "edit" operation to get the hyperlink dialog box, copy the "address" of the hyperlink, and then paste that into the work item description. Cheers, Geoff On 3/21/2011 8:23 AM, rayj00 wrote: rschoonwrote: The issue is Hyperlinks. When I cut or copy a Hyperlink then paste into the Description area of Ecllipse, it pastes as text only with no link. Ray |
To paste a Word hyperlink into the work item description, you need to rschoonwrote: The issue is Hyperlinks. When I cut or copy a Hyperlink then paste into the Description area of Ecllipse, it pastes as text only with no link. Ray Yea, I am aware of how to do that. I guess the real answer is Hyperlinks are not allowed in the Description area. |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Mar 21 '11, 5:42 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
I think we understand each other ... you can make a section of the RTC
work item description active, where clicking on that section will take you to the page referenced by the URL of that active section. But one cannot modify/customize the display of that active section (it always is the URL, underlined and highlighted in color). Whether or not that means "hyperlinks are allowed in the Description field" is not something we need to agree on (:-). Cheers, Geoff On 3/21/2011 4:23 PM, rayj00 wrote: gmclemmwrote: The issue is Hyperlinks. When I cut or copy a Hyperlink then paste into the Description area of Ecllipse, it pastes as text only with no link. Ray Yea, I am aware of how to do that. I guess the real answer is Hyperlinks are not allowed in the Description area. |
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