Thanks, I just saw the KB article myself.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Thad K Esser <[email protected]> wrote:

> We just had the same question a few weeks ago.  BMC has a kb article on it
> (KM-000000012134) that reads:
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>      "This is a limitation of HTML code in and of itself for form input
> tags of text and textarea. These types of fields do not allow for active
> hyperlinks to be displayed. The fields would have to be displayed as
> something other than a text form field or a textarea form field in html
> code for it to work."
>
> and then they give a workaround that wasn't worth using for us.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Thad Esser
> Remedy Developer
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>  Yes, that's correct.  The web view shows the URL as text and not a link.
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> Chuck
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Howard Richter <[email protected]>
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>  Chuck,
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>  Are you saying that the url in the view via the web is just displayed as
>  text and not a link?
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>  Strange.
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>  On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Charles Baldi <[email protected]> wrote:
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>   Hello all,
>   We have put URL text into the Notes field of the Task template to
>   reference various checklist documents that a task assignee should work
>   with.  The customer has noticed that when viewing the resultant task in
>   the Windows client, the URL text is displayed as a hyperlink and when
>   clicked will launch a browser to the target file (they like this
>   behavior).  However, when the same task is viewed from the Mid-Tier, the
>   text is *not* rendered as a hyperlink but as plain text.  Does anyone
>   know if there is a way to have the Mid-Tier "interpret" these URL text
>   strings as hyperlinks?  I suppose I could put anchor tags around the
>   text and build my own link (have not tried it yet) but I want it to work
>   the same in the Windows and Mid-Tier clients.
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>   Any ideas?  I'm hoping for an uncomplicated solution as this is not a
>   critical feature, just a nice-to-have.
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>   ARS 7.1, p5
>   ITSM 7.0.3 p8
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>   Thanks in advance.
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