Display clickable hyperlinks (originating from ​Nationaal Georegister)

Date	2009/09/03
Contact(s)	​Heikki Doeleman
Last edited	Timestamp
Status	draft
Assigned to release	2.5
Resources	The work may be done in the NGR project

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

Links

• Email discussions: on geonetwork-devel: ​Proposals to include NGR functionality to GeoNetwork trunk
• IRC discussions: ​September 1st, 2009 on GeoNetwork's IRC channel

Voting History

• None as yet

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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