additional field, set up as URL, is displayed as text

[Kelly]

I added a few additional fields, including one called “registration link” and saved it as URL field type. I have been inputting the event link from our CMS, and until very recently, it worked correctly as a link. Today I noticed that this field was no longer a link but a text field (so instead of a clickable link for each event, it was a text field with code, eg… “ http://kidmuseum.org.nonprofiteasy.43423342” What caused this change and how can I make it a clickable link again? I had to temporarily cut and paste the correct link to the “website” field, as it’s the only field that I can get to work as a clickable link, but it’s missing to refer to it as a website. Alternatively, it would work to rename the “website” field “registration link” but I’m not sure how to do that. Please help – thanks!

• This topic was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by Kelly.

[Nico]

Hi Kelly,

Thanks for reaching out to us on this! Unfortunately this is a bug introduced in our last update 🙁

Please take a look at this temporary solution: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/html-shows-as-text/#dl_post-1003968 – other option is to downgrade the plugins to a previous working version.

This bug is already logged and a fix for this will be included in next release coming out -hopefully- in November.

Please let me know if you can apply the fix for now,
Best,
Nico

[Brian]

Thanks. Why wasn’t this fixed in the 3.12.1 release?

[Nico]

Hey Brian,

When I logged this bug the tickets for the maintenance release were already defined and mostly everything was ready for QA. So I guess it was a matter of timing!

We are aware this a bummer, and a fix for this is already being developed. Also as many of you raised awareness on this I bumped the priority of this fix to the higher level.

Thanks a lot for your feedback,
Cheers,
Nico

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[Geoff]

Hey there,

Just poking in to let you know that this issue has been resolved and a patch will be included in Version 4.0. We expect that to release sometime today so please do keep you eyes peeled and feel free to let us know if have any other questions after updating.

Thanks for your patience while we figured this out!

Geoff

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