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Photo of Kay McCallum

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Hi, i'm using group viewer for our LIFEgroups.  When I set up the group I add the location in Group Attribute Values under Area.  I would like to have online and the link to the online chat in this box.  I can only type out the web address (which is super long) and can't insert a hyperlink instead.  Is there a way that I could add a hyperlink?  I can do it in communications and in here by the look of things, but not in group viewer that I can see.  Help

  • Photo of Michael Garrison

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    Hi Kay- it sounds like you or someone has set up a custom attribute on your LIFEgroup Group Type to get the "Area". That's not a core function so without more information we kind of have to guess as to how it's set up, but it sounds like maybe that group attribute is set up to store the value as plain text.

    (for example, check out this page on the demo site- see how when you edit the group there's no "Area" attribute like you see, but there is a "Topic" field? That's what makes me suspect this is a custom group attribute).

    If you have a custom template that's showing the attribute values you could possibly use a field like {{ Group | Attribute:'Area' | Linkify }} instead of just {{ Group | Attribute:'Area' }}, which would at least make your long URL clickable. Rock also has a link shortener- if you have admin rights you can click the "link" button in the admin toolbar at the bottom right of the page and get a short redirect URL that will send people to the long URL.

    But for total flexibility, you may need to consider adding a new/separate Group Attribute to that group type, maybe called "Link". You could use a "URL" field which would automatically make it a link when it's shown, but I think you'd still need to show the full URL which isn't pretty. So you might consider making it an HTML field instead so you can add a link with different text.

    You can get more information about configuring Group Attributes for all groups of that type at  https://community.rockrms.com/documentation/bookcontent/7/#administeringgrouptypes , and if you're not familiar with configuring attributes with different field types you can check out https://community.rockrms.com/documentation/bookcontent/9/303#entityattributes or the video at https://rockrms.com/rocku/core-concepts/custom-attributes covers attributes in much more detail. Possibly the video at https://rockrms.com/rocku/groups/group-types has information about group attributes too.