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Hello Peter:
I haven’t used the ‘make this column hyperlink’ feature a lot before now, but I am on the current Bach catalogue. And I’ve noticed that the way the back end works, you can assign the ‘Link Text’ separately from the associated ‘URL’ -which is a good thing!
But often, I know what the link text will be (the name of a Bach cantata) before I know what the URL will be (the article where I -eventually!- get around to discussing that cantata). So I will often add the link text with *no* associated URL.
It would be helpful then to be able to distinguish those bits of link texts which I have properly and completely linked, from those which are merely link texts with no associated URL because I haven’t got round to writing the article yet.
Unfortunately, both on the back end and on the front, columns which are declared to be of type hyperlink are displayed as hyperlinks, which are clickable, whether a URL has actually been associated with the link text or not.
I’ve added a fake entry for BWV 0099 in my table on the page in question so you can see the problem in action: the words ‘On the to-do list’ appear clickable, and can actually be clicked, even though I’ve not associated a URL with them yet.
Now, fine: when you click that un-asscociated link text like that one, you merely cycle back to the page you’re on -so no major harm is done. But *visually*, you would expect to be taken to a new page and not doing so is a bit jarring. For me, too, it means it’s impossible to tell the difference between items in a list for which I’ve already written an article and items which still need new articles written.
So, my long-winded feature enhancement request: is it possible for hyperlink columns that have link text but no URL (yet) to be displayed as ordinary text, without looking like they are a link that can be clicked? And can that be done on both the front and back ends?
That way, I can cue up a list of articles that need to be written (by adding them to my table now) without the hyperlinks looking like a ‘real’ hyperlink that would actually do something when clicked.
It’s a tiny, tiny detail, so no worries if it’s not likely to get on your agenda any time soon.
Best wishes,
HJR