13.05.2008

Quick Tip: $DontAutoProcessURL avoids auto-creation of URL hotspots (Update 2)

>>Author:  Thomas Bahn
>>Ort:     Schwentinental (Kiel)

URL: http://www.assono.de/blog/d6plinks/Quick-Tipp-DontAutoProcessURL

Category: Quick-Tipp, Lotus Notes, Entwicklung

Kudos to Kevin Pettitt.

For some time I struggled with our Blogsphere-based blog , when saving post

using Notes 8
with RichText as Posting Type and
within [ [...] ] marked HTML code.

Whenever there is a http:/..., it is converted to a URL hotspot.

This might make sense in simple emails and such, but converting [ [<img src="http://www.assono.de/blog/..." ...>] ] to <img src="<a href="http://www.assono.de/blog/..." ...> is more than annoying.

But since IBM did it, there is a "compatibility switch" to get the old behaviour into Notes 8: $DontAutoProcessURL

The form must contain a text field $DontAutoProcessURL with a value of "1" (text) and everything works as before.

Kevin (re)implemented the fix in the Blogsphere template for the next version (RC1 ?!).

Source: $DontAutoProcessURL tweak, Kevin Pettitt

Update:
What I forgot to mention: Developers of combined Notes client & Domino Web applications (like a typical CMS app) should pay attention to the changed behavior of the handling of http:/ / in RichText fields - or add the $DontAutoProcessURL text field.

Update 2:
In the meantime Kevin has written a blog post about this subject himself: Blogsphere in Notes 8: How To Get URLs Working in Rich Text Posts