= Display clickable hyperlinks (originating from [http://nationaalgeoregister.nl Nationaal Georegister]) =

|| '''Date''' || 2009/09/03 ||
|| '''Contact(s)''' || [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Heikki Heikki Doeleman] ||
|| '''Last edited''' || [[Timestamp]] ||
|| '''Status''' || Motion passed ||
|| '''Assigned to release''' || 2.5 ||
|| '''Resources''' || The work has been done in the NGR project, committed to 2.4.x dd. 13-10-2009. TODO commit to trunk!||

== Overview ==

In [http://nationaalgeoregister.nl 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.
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=== Proposal Type ===
 * '''Type''': GUI change
 * '''App''': !GeoNetwork
 * '''Module''': Search results, Metadata view

=== Links ===
 
 * '''Email discussions''': on geonetwork-devel: [http://n2.nabble.com/Proposals-to-include-NGR-functionality-to-GeoNetwork-trunk-td3365623.html#a3365623 "Proposals to include NGR functionality to GeoNetwork trunk"]
 * '''IRC discussions''': [http://logs.qgis.org/geonetwork/%23geonetwork.2009-09-01.log September 1st, 2009 on GeoNetwork's IRC channel]

=== Voting History ===

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

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== Motivations ==
The motivations for these changes are :

'''1.''' Better usability

== Proposal == 
In [http://nationaalgeoregister.nl 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.
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=== Backwards Compatibility Issues ===

none

== Risks ==

== Participants ==
 * As above