Display clickable hyperlinks (originating from  Nationaal Georegister)

Date 2009/09/03
Contact(s)  Heikki Doeleman
Last edited

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Status Motion passed
Assigned to release 2.5
Resources The work has been done in the NGR project, committed to 2.4.x and trunk, dd. 13-10-2009.

Overview

In  NGR, when metadata is displayed, any hyperlinks in the text are actually displayed as clickable links. The link types that are recognized are: http, https, ftp, and mailto.

Proposal Type

  • Type: GUI change
  • App: GeoNetwork
  • Module: Search results, Metadata view

Voting History

  • Vote proposed September 14th 2009
  • Votes:
    • Patrizia Monteduro +1
    • Simon Pigot +1
    • François Prunayre +1
    • Emanuele Tajariol +1
    • Jeroen Ticheler +1

Motivations

The motivations for these changes are :

1. Better usability

Proposal

In  NGR, when metadata is displayed, any hyperlinks in the text are actually displayed as clickable links. The link types that are recognized are: http, https, ftp, and mailto. It will be possible to turn off this behaviour by changing a setting in GeoNetwork's admin configuration interface.






Backwards Compatibility Issues

none

Risks

Participants

  • As above

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