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SalesRedSalesRed 

How to overcome URL's being too long for URL Field?

Hi ,  I have URL's which are referencing files in Amazon S2. THe URL's are too long to store in a URL field therefore I have been storing them in Long Text Area fields.  I would like to display the URL as a clickable URL in a related list on a detail page.   Is it possible to workaround the URL size restrction without having to create a visualforce page for this?  I had thought of using a Formula field either but could not do so with a Long Text Area if requiring to store the URL detail there.

Any thoughts or suggestions on this would be welcomed.

Thanks in advance.
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SalesRedSalesRed
Hi, thanks for the suggestion.  I've got around the issue by creating 2 text fields instead of 1 Long Text Area, splitting the URL and storing in the 2 fields and then using a formula feld to create a hyperlink from these 2 fields.  The split URL values will not overrun the length of each text field.

Thanks for the suggestion on LinkFOrce also.

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RamuRamu (Salesforce Developers) 
This app might help

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SalesRedSalesRed
Hi, thanks for the suggestion.  I've got around the issue by creating 2 text fields instead of 1 Long Text Area, splitting the URL and storing in the 2 fields and then using a formula feld to create a hyperlink from these 2 fields.  The split URL values will not overrun the length of each text field.

Thanks for the suggestion on LinkFOrce also.
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Roberto Weinstein 15Roberto Weinstein 15
Can you share the formula to cerate a hyperlink please.
Roberto Weinstein 15Roberto Weinstein 15
Never mind... Here is the formula I used... works well  

2 field names  URL_Part_1__c and then URL_Part_2__c

Formula:

URL_Part_1__c  &  URL_Part_2__c

Thanks for the idea.