MailMerge field doesn't work in a Hyperlink field about sablon HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @maggielei

Thanks for reaching out. Sablon is not specifically supporting Hyperlinks at this time so it's definitely possible that this is not working as expected. You could work on a patch to add this functionality to Sablon.

@stadelmanma did you have any plans to do links on HTML insertion? Or is your project in need to use Sablon templates with Hyperlinks?

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@maggielei @senny
Currently our workflow doesn't involve hyperlinks at all so I didn't plan on adding support for an <a> tag.

Reading that stack overflow answer made it seem like native mail merge support was shaky at best.

I saved a test document and unzipped it to see how MS Word handled hyperlinks and it looks like an HTML insertion would be the best way. You would use the href attribute to set the target in document.xml.rels and the actual content between the <a>...</a> to set up the w:hyperlink node in document.xml. However, the bigger issue is that currently HTML insertion replaces the entire paragraph which would be less than desirable in this case.

I don't know how hard it would be to allow "inline" elements <a>, <b>, <span>, etc. to replace an individual run instead.

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@senny @stadelmanma
Thank you both for your quick responses! I'll be subscribing to #47 for more updates and in the meantime I'll try to see if I can come up with my own solution. Thanks again.

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@maggielei hyperlink creation is now possible on the master branch via HTML content insertion. However, it currently comes with the limitation that the entire paragraph must be replaced. Inline HTML/WordML insertion is something I am working on now.

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@maggielei See here for a method to insert HTML hyperlinks into a document without replacing the entire paragraph.

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