<![CDATA[External links in GoFAST]]>It is not essential but would be nice to have the possibility to add a title to external links.

Just imagine we use external links to something with a URL pattern similar to that of GoFAST: "https://mydomain.com/?pageid=123", where pageid=123 contains supporting information to topic x and pageid=356 I also want to link contains the legal background for topic x. It would be very handy to not just display the "permalink"

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/topic/524/external-links-in-gofastRSS for NodeFri, 04 Sep 2026 19:36:50 GMTMon, 14 Jun 2021 06:44:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to External links in GoFAST on Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:09:19 GMT]]>Sorry for the delay in replying,
The initial development did not take into account the different server configurations, because to retrieve data from websites, requests are sent from the server to the various external link sites. However, if for some reason requests to external sites were blocked, the automatic display would not be possible.
This is why, after an internal discussion, external link customization will also be added in version 4.2.0 (not in a patch).

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3187https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3187Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:09:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to External links in GoFAST on Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:59:37 GMT]]>@tgruffat said in External links in GoFAST:

it has been decided that a first update of external links will be made for version 4.2.0, it will implement the automatic display of the title of the destination page.

Just to clarify: will this be part of version 4.2.0, or part of a patch for 4.2.0 (i.. 4.2.1 or so)? Would that require changes in security (allow GoFast server 1 HTTPS access to Internet, for example)? Or would that be fetched by the user's browser in some script at the moment of link creation?

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3175https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3175Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:59:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to External links in GoFAST on Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:43:46 GMT]]>Hello,
Thanks for your feedback, it has been decided that a first update of external links will be made for version 4.2.0, it will implement the automatic display of the title of the destination page.
However, we've created a new internal ticket so that we can further improve these links in a future version, with the addition of greater customizability.

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3174https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3174Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:43:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to External links in GoFAST on Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:31:24 GMT]]>The automatic display would already be great, that works very well with well structured modern sites (like this forum, or I looked at our own public website, and even our financial software).

Replacing that manually or adding an additional label would still be very helpful. It is typical that in a DMS like GoFAST you have internal documents with references to internal, often legacy apps that do not have varying names. It could also be that you use a link to information in a different language; replacing such a label coming from a page title with a reference in a language shared by the readers would help, even for those readers who could not themselves understand the contents of the actually linked page. However, I leave it to you to see if that is complicating matters too much; as I wrote, just having the page title displayed would be a good help.

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3166https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3166Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:31:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to External links in GoFAST on Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:45:10 GMT]]>Hello,
Concerning this functionality, would you like to be able to add custom titles to external links or would it be sufficient to have an automatic display of the name of the destination page? For example: image.png using the url of this forum.

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3165https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/3165Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:45:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to External links in GoFAST on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:11:17 GMT]]>Hello @classen,

Thank you for suggesting this idea. I opened a ticket internally GOFAST - 7218 to improve this feature.

Best regards,
Yelena Yevtykhova

]]>https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/1538https://community.ceo-vision.com/post/1538Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:11:17 GMT