Some URLs will NOT transform into a clickable link when entered in a text field?

[Marcel Domingus]

Hi, I am having troubling coaxing the editor of a text field into tranforming a URL into a clickable link.

The following is an example of such a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgxSvFoQ59k​​

Apparently it will briefly recognize it as a URL (the text will be rendered bold), but in the end it is stored as normal text, i.e. like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqAtI6K7NY&feature=youtu.be forcing the reader to copy / paste the URL to a browser to actually open it.

Is there some way to force a string to be recognized as a URL?

[#2]

Screenshot attached

[#3]

Ahh your using a template that looks to be using the old Teams action. Might have to start blank and create one, cause the Team action is called something like "Post to Teams channel" that shows at "Post message" in screenshot or something, I think it's updated to use HTML with that one. might explain why mine is working and yours isn't. 

[#4]

Ok, thanks, I'll try that!

[#5]

@Deleted, this does not work with Planner. I tried your suggestion and wrapped the "Link to item"-property like this:

In planner it comes out as plain text. Any ideas on how to solve this?

[#6]

For it did its job with transforming the plain text to a hyperlink but I would expect that Flow would embed the video and not just hyperlinking.

Does anyone know if this is planned? 

THanks

Ward

[#7]

This worked for me. Just place this before and after your dynamics content.

[#8]

@Darya Valchonak This situation is quite frustrating as more than 50% of my team's messages contain url-s. I don't know why Microsoft has done nothing to solve this in the last 3 years since the problem was initially reported. 

Our internal urls (eg: http://demo.project.companyname ) never get recognized and we always  have to copy paste it into the browser. Please let me know if you have anything under development or on roadmap as future development. 

I am waiting for your reply, I am the only one supporting your application, the rest of my team supports slack so if nothing changes we might have to switch to it.

[#9]

Hi there, now almost september, and this - i mean basic - feature is not working.

In all app i past the url - and after that i can click it - but not in planner.

Hey Microsoft - please set up this functionality!!!
Thanks a lot!

[#10]

@Deleted 

I have the same Problem. It is still not working.

I think, it is a problem with the contentType, which should be 1 instead of html

MicrosoftTeams.PostMessageToChannel("groupid","channelid",{body:{content:HtmlText1.HtmlText,contentType:1}})

But I do not know how to post it.

[#11]

Hallo Microsoft,

please start using "Trello" - there you can see it.
It could work.

Please also make it happen.

Thank you

and best regards
Frank

[#12]

Basicly 4 weeks later no feedback and no info - what about microsoft-Team?
Do they read here?
The problem is old - 3 Years ...

Again: Check Trello - there you can see:
Paste a URL (e.g. from Browser) - you can click it!
Fill in or paste a phone number - on smartphone (Trello App) i can click it and make the call.
Or click lso the url - browser opens and loads the url.
It is soooo easy ti use and comfortable.

In Planner on Smartphone i have to copy phone-number manually, change to phone, paste the number manually and can dial.
Puhhh...

Hey Microsoft - check it out and make this also happen.
Thank you und best
quinfe

[#13]

Hallo Darya Valchonak - now in 2019 also it did not work - see my last post - checkt TRELLO - there you can see how it works there. It would be nice, if Planner also works like this - which is really user friendly.

[#14]

@quinfe and all in this thread.  I see here that this thread has been open for some time.  This is an issue with the Flow connector so I have posted internally to that team to see what's going on.  I can repo the issue FWIW.  Thank you for your patience.