Great "quality of life" suggestion! I can see this being a really useful feature. One thing I do a lot is creating dynamic links based on user input.

For example, on one of our employee change forms I use a "building" dropdown to set the URL for a link to building maps so supervisors can locate the room number where the employee will be sitting.

With a "Link" field like this I could reference the building variable in a calculation, and have the link updated dynamically without any custom JavaScript.

Great idea which compliments the new designer perfectly. Definitely a +1 from me.

Elaborating further on this feature request, I think it would be great to also provide the option to define how that 'read only' link was formatted when displayed.

• Simple Display: Responsive Button (with editable properties e.g. border radius, colour, background etc)
• Advanced Display: Full HTML (with variable placement)

Save me a lot of time on these things (as described, Custom HTML blocks):

Just as a heads up, I have found a way to create dynamic links in the new builder even though we do not have access to JavaScript.  It basically uses the Rich Text field, CSS, and a Stored Procedure.  Using the NEW designer:

1. Add a Rich Text field to the form & set it to read-only
2. Create a stored procedure that takes in the dynamic data for URL you want and returns it as an html formatted link
   • e.g. <a href="https://www.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>
3. Setup a lookup rule on the Rich Text field to call the stored procedure, passing in the necessary other fields to generate the URL
4. Update the CSS to format the Rich Text field as needed (e.g. hide field label, hide unnecessary parts of field, change background color, ...).  I added a custom class to the Rich Text field called "fieldlabelhide" to also hide the label for the Rich Text field for a cleaner look.  Below is what I used for the particular form I was working on.

   • .fieldlabelhide div>label {display: none;}
     
     .note-toolbar {display: none;}
     .note-statusbar {display: none;}
     .note-editable {min-height: 10px !important;background-color: white !important;
       	padding:0px !important;font-size: medium !important;}
     .note-editor {background-color: white !important;border:none !important;}
     fl-rich-text {padding: 0px !important;}

      

While I still hope we get a URL field type, hopefully this helps someone out in the meantime.