Hyperlinks Containing Parentheses?

Aaron Turner

My company has started using Trello, and I've encountered an issue with the Hyperlinks: parentheses.

 

I have a really ugly URL that I'm trying to hide behind a link, but because the linking mechanisms function off of the parentheses, the process is failing.

 

Example:

URL

https://jira/jira/issues/?jql=cf[12369] in ("Issues Fixed") AND filter = "ICODES Development Projects" AND issuetype in (Bug, "Test Case", "SOL Bug") AND (assignee in membersOf("Test Group") OR reporter in membersOf("Test Group")) AND project = SSDM

 

Note the existence of parentheses in the URL. When I try to turn this into a link, Trello fails:

[Issues](https://jira/jira/issues/?jql=cf[12369] in ("Issues Fixed") AND filter = "ICODES Development Projects" AND issuetype in (Bug, "Test Case", "SOL Bug") AND (assignee in membersOf("Test Group") OR reporter in membersOf("Test Group")) AND project = SSDM)

 

Gives me: Issues%20AND%20project%20%3D%20SSDM)

 

It appears that the double parentheses near the end are causing the link to end before I actually want it to.

 

Is there any way to escape the parentheses, or force the linking to continue until I want it to end?

Andy Heinzer

You could escape the characters by replacing them with their hex equivalent.  Just as the spaces are replaced with a %20 you can do the same with the parenthesis.   If you change the ( into %28 and the ) into %29 the URL should still be valid and in turn you can eliminate those characters from the URL itself.

There is a complete chart on the ASCII to HEX character conversion that might help to understand this better in http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/AsciiChart.jsp