Disable automatic hyperlinks when writing URLs in updates

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I frequently need to share URLs with other people. I create a new Update on an Item and paste the raw URL that I want to share. But I find that URLs oftentimes get “over-processed” by Monday.

To show you what I mean, let’s take this URL for example:

https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2428367506&context=PC&vid=DIAKON&lang=no_NO&search_scope=default_scope&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,Conceptions%20and%20Practices%20of%20Critical%20Thinking%20in%20Chinese%20Schools:%20An%20Example%20from%20Shanghai&mode=Basic

When I write a new Update and paste that raw URL from my computer’s clipboard, look at what Monday does to it:

pasted link
pasted link707×226 20 KB

Part of the URL gets truncated and hyperlinked. I don’t want either of those things to happen. I just want to share the URL exactly as I pasted it.

It was probably intended as a feature, but realistically it interferes with my work like a bug. Is there any way to stop Monday from automatically altering the URLs that I write in plain text?

It doesn’t always need to happen automatically. If I wanted a hyperlink, I would paste one, or I would use the ‘Link’ button in the formatting menu:

link button
link button695×213 19.8 KB

Thanks!

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I have seen this too! Big enhancement. Thanks for posting.

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hi @MikeInSaaS

Welcome to the community. It’s a very old discussion whether you need to encode comma’s inside your URL. Try a Google search on “do i need to encode comma in url” and you see why this is happening. Your URL contains unencoded comma’s.

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Hey Mike, I just use the text formatting option and choose “Code”.

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