Confiforms: Trying to display an autolink field in a table but using fieldName.asLink doesn't work?

[Evan Hiatt]

I am using Confluence version 8.1.0 

I have a field definition in a confiform that is named "linkToRegistryPage". The field type is autolink. When I use a tableview macro to display all the links, it lists them in the following format: 

http://linkName1\extraStuff

http://linkName2\extraStuff

http://linkName3\extraStuff

This is fine, but I want it to just display:

Link

Link

Link

I attempted to follow this forum's instructions found here: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confiforms-Modification-of-link-text-from-links-field/qaq-p/1500188

So I attempted to use ".asLink(Link)" as follows:

in the confiforms field macro I define the field name as:

"linkToRegistryPage.asLink(Link)"

The output shows this:

http://linkName1\extraStuff">Link

http://linkName2\extraStuff">Link

http://linkName3\extraStuff">Link

This is super weird and I can't get it to work. Any solutions?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Hi @Evan Hiatt and welcome to this community

Autolink field itself is a HTML link - that is why the asLink function does misbehave in some way.

What you can do is the following (in the field name macro parameter)

linkToRegistryPage.extractText.asLink(View)

Alex

[Evan Hiatt]

Wow! That was a speedy response and worked great! Thanks