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Upgrading Weblink, HTML code no longer being interpreted in text label?

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Updated August 2, 2021

asked on July 30, 2021 • Show version history

We're upgrading Weblink and noticing that text fields added to a search form are no longer interpreting HTML code the way the earlier version of Weblink did.

For example, we have a text item in the search form that contains text like this in order to make a clickable link:

For more help, see <a href="http://www.google.com">here</a>.

But when we preview the form in the browser, we see:

For more help, see <a href="http://google.com">here</a>.

Is there a setting to allow Weblink to render HTML code within the text item?

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replied on August 2, 2021

Rick,

See the following post on how you can accomplish this as the 10.x versions behave differently on how content is rendered. https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/175894/Adding-custom-elements-to-WebLink-welcome-page

Wesley Funderberg

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replied on August 2, 2021 • Show version history

Thanks. I will never understand why any company thinks it's okay to remove/degrade features and functionality and call it an upgrade. I appreciate your help but these kinds of workarounds to restore previously available functionality should never be necessary.

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replied on August 2, 2021

Rick,

Rendering un-sanitized HTML is considered a security hole, so this functionality was removed on purpose.

Laserfiche metadata fields are plain-text, so they are never expected to render as anything else. This functionality in WebLink was a side effect of it being a web page, but it was never a feature.

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replied on August 2, 2021 • Show version history

I understand that, but there are ways to implement HTML rendering in a system like this while closing security issues it might cause. From my perspective, this is still functionality that was removed in an upgrade. It should have been safely re-implemented as part of the upgrade, IMO, not just removed.

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replied on July 30, 2021

Unfortunately there's no setting to do this. One of the updates in versions 10.2 removed rendering of user-inputted html.

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