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Dear wpDataTables Support Team,
I have been trying to create a table where the entries in one column are clickable links that direct to URLs constructed from another column's values. Despite following online documentation and even consulting with ChatGPT, I haven't been successful in achieving this functionality.
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Could you please provide guidance on how to correctly configure the "Short Name" column to use the "product_slug" column for constructing the URLs? I would like the links to direct users to the appropriate product pages as per the desired URL structure.
I appreciate your assistance and look forward to your response.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Darren
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Hi Darren,
My sincerest apology, there was an error on this ticket from my end - I wrote a reply, but it somehow did not get sent properly.
This will not happen again, thank you very much for your patience.
As mentioned on the Documentation, when we use the Transform Value feature, if you try setting the "transform" column to "URL link type" - that won't work;
or if any of the columns, from the placeholders used, are also not string - there will be issues.
And also, for any clickable link, you will need to write the full Custom HTML in the String Column "transform value", in order to make hyperlinks, with the "a href" property.
It will be a 'standard' hyperlink by combining creating an "a href" and wrapping that around some column value placeholders and in this way it works without issues.
We have a Table with some Products, the Product ID Column named as "id" along with Field "ProductName", etc;
For each Product, we made an individual Page, with the URL as :
http://myWebsite/page-Product ID/
For Product ID 221 the full URL will be like :
http://localhost/current/page-221/
For a Custom Link, i will create an "a href" HTML hyperlink and add a "target blank", an optional attribute to open it in a new tab, as well as displayed link text.
For the URL, we create each cell to start with "<a href="http://localhost/current/page-" then add the value for the Product ID as column placeholder {id.value} and for the displayed link text we will combine adding the product name such as "Click here to view {productname.value} Page" , ending it with the closing </a> tag, like :
Of course, we can additionally add a CSS class to the HTML anchor Tag, such as :
Then we can call that class for custom styling and make the link look as a button in the Table's Customize/Custom CSS, and so on.
So, as long as we include some existing column placeholders with values, we can construct custom links, etc.
Let me know how it goes, if you encounter any further issues with this use-case.
Once again, my sincerest apologies for such extreme waiting time, this will not happen again.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
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EVEN THOUGH THIS TICKET WAS POSTED THREE WEEKS AGO! I MANANGED TO SOLVE THIS MY SELF!
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Hi Darren,
My sincere apologies once again for that error on this ticket.
We will monitor all open tickets closely going forward, the issue should not happen again.
We will respond to all your other open tickets now.
Thank you.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
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