How to add HTML tags using Normalization Rules to create a link within a display field

Created By: Richard Robertson

Created on: 2/26/2019

In order to build a link into a record’s display fields, you could use a combination of normalisation rules to mark-up the link with HTML tags.

For this example, the source field content is: 'For more information about this collection, please visit: https://website.com'

Rule 1:

Transformation:

Drop String (use reg. exp) – create or find a regular expression (regex) that matches on a URL

Result:

“For more information about this collection, please visit: ”

Rule 2:

Transformations:

Add to beginning of string: <a href="

Take string (use reg. exp.) – use the same regex, but this time takes only the URL

Add to end of string: ">

Result:

Rule 3:

Transformations:

Take string (use reg. exp.) – same regex takes only the URL

Add to end of string: </a>

Result:

Each rule is set to merge, so the final result would be:

For more information about this collection, please visit: <a href="https://website.com">https://website.com</a>

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