Removing "dynamic" Mentions
I have programmatically created a work item from something stored in a different defect repository. I had taken all of the defect text and put it into the Description field.
RTC seems to automatically create "Mentions" Links for a couple things, including anything with a URL. It also seems to pick up work item #6 which is not at all related to this defect.
Two questions
1) how can I remove these once they get created? For example, I tried to select one and do "remove" but the "Remove" button is greyed.
2) Is there a way to tell my program that is using the RTC APIs (in java) to NOT allow this work item to have these auto-generated Mentions links?
Thanks,
Susan Hanson
RTC seems to automatically create "Mentions" Links for a couple things, including anything with a URL. It also seems to pick up work item #6 which is not at all related to this defect.
Two questions
1) how can I remove these once they get created? For example, I tried to select one and do "remove" but the "Remove" button is greyed.
2) Is there a way to tell my program that is using the RTC APIs (in java) to NOT allow this work item to have these auto-generated Mentions links?
Thanks,
Susan Hanson
2 answers
Hi Susan,
currently, there is no way to disable link detectors from creating "mentions" links. This is discussed in work item 156307
The link detectors will trigger on expressions such as:
@user
http://sometext
As a work around you'd have to parse your imported work items text fields to e.g. change the URLs to contain an extra space between http: and //
Other than that I can only recommend you add comments to the above work item, explaining your need for it and push for configurability of link detectors to be implemented in a future release.
- Arne
currently, there is no way to disable link detectors from creating "mentions" links. This is discussed in work item 156307
The link detectors will trigger on expressions such as:
@user
http://sometext
As a work around you'd have to parse your imported work items text fields to e.g. change the URLs to contain an extra space between http: and //
Other than that I can only recommend you add comments to the above work item, explaining your need for it and push for configurability of link detectors to be implemented in a future release.
- Arne
Hi Susan,
if you are creating work items programmatically using the Java API, try wrapping your comment or description text into <synthetic> tags. As far as I understand the server-side parsing code, this will suppress automatic creation of mentions links.
Example: XMLString.createFromPlainText("<synthetic>https://jazz.net</synthetic>");
Regards
Markus
if you are creating work items programmatically using the Java API, try wrapping your comment or description text into <synthetic> tags. As far as I understand the server-side parsing code, this will suppress automatic creation of mentions links.
Example: XMLString.createFromPlainText("<synthetic>https://jazz.net</synthetic>");
Regards
Markus
