I am using a rich text editor in my app and i want to add inline deeplinks in the format.
name://path?type=a&source=b
When i add the inline hyperlink it is automatically removed and formatted as follows without the href. Is there any workaround for this ?
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<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">aaa</a>
Hello @Mahendra_Dassanayaka,
The issue you're experiencing with the hyperlink not appearing after a page refresh is due to using an incorrect default value.
To ensure hyperlinks are retained correctly in the Rich Text Editor, use a properly formatted HTML string like this in the default value:
<p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=grpc+api&sca_esv=91e9498f46de628c&sxsrf=AE3TifMVQ2UWzfIDnj6P90edNmTKUXWBxw%3A1752757626708&ei=evV4aOb8Kp3M1e8PrO34wAM&ved=0ahUKEwjmod79-sOOAxUdZvUHHaw2HjgQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=grpc+api&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiCGdycGMgYXBpMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABEiNG1DmDVitEnABeACQAQCYAZEBoAH0BKoBAzAuNbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBaACkATCAgcQIxiwAxgnwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigXCAgQQIxgnwgIKEAAYgAQYQxiKBcICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEMYigXCAggQABiABBixA5gDAIgGAZAGCpIHAzEuNKAHhRuyBwMwLjS4B4sEwgcFMC40LjHIBw0&sclient=gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank">Hello</a></p>
I discovered this correct format by applying a hyperlink within the editor and then inspecting the resulting value. Using that exact output as the default value ensures the hyperlink is preserved across refreshes.
Hi @Mahendra_Dassanayaka, the hyperlink will let you pass in urls to other webpages with the format: https://www.somedomain.com/page?param=2 or http://google.com or relative paths within your website: customers?user=2 -> yourretooldomain.com/someid/appname/customers?user=2.
Inputting paths that it can't navigate to, whether it's an unfamiliar format or an attempted link to the filesystem (like Users/Mike/Documents/etc), will change to about:blank.
Thanks for the clarification @Mike_M. My attempt is to include an app hyperlink like app_name:://appscreen_name?param=1234. Is there any way I can achieve this ?
I think the app_name:// part is what is not working. Have you tried using the whole url? ex: https://your_username.retool.com/apps/some_alphanumeric_id/app_name?param=1234
no @Mike_M it is a predefined format. in my case this is a mobile app
Oh ok, mobile might change things. This is the type of link I get when I click "Copy deep link" from a mobile app: https://retool.com/mobile/link?type=APP&path=Mobile%2520test&host=...
Does that not work?
Also are you linking from one mobile app to another?
@Mike_M we are using this basically to navigate to screeens via emails and push notifs and the format is self defined that is why it starts with app_name:://screen_name?param=1 format.
In testing links in the rich text editor I found out that your example, app_name:://screen_name?param=1 actually does work, but only if there's an underscore in app_name.
Something else I tried out is a leading slash would also work (regardless of underscores), ex: /appname:://screen_name?param=1. Let me know if that is a viable solution!
Also I changed the topic category to Mobile, just for reference to anyone seeing this thread later.
Hi @Mahendra_Dassanayaka, just checking in! Were you able to get this working?
Hey @Mike_M adding an underscore works but it needs a total revamp of the app deeplinks currently defined/used. Thanks for the help.
