URL with friendly Name Dataverse CDS

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Hello,

Is it not possible to use a friendly name when building Model Driven Apps using Dataverse fields? I have tested the URL field and this seems to just be a text field allowing you to capture the full URL which does work when clicking however is silly looking to have to see this in your solutions rather than a friendly name like the name of the project, name of the contact, etc. I have tested using some HTML and this does not work either and just displays the code.

And here is the URL field being displayed in Dynamics 365. Sure would be nice to use a friendly name. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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EricRegnier 8,720 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Dudditz,

Unfortunately out-of-the-box URL text fields/columns displays the full URL and no way to have a friendly name. There are some open source PCF controls to do that though in https://pcf.gallery/. For instance: https://pcf.gallery/custom-url-control/ . You can install the control and use it for your URL field.

Hope this helps!

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Hi Eric, Thank you for your feedback. I will proceed with testing out a PCF control to fill the requirement.

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Patrick1995 4 on at

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@DudditzHi, did you find a solution to display the url with a user friendly name in the list view? We want to achieve exactly the same.

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Hi @Patrick1995, have you tried the PCF control (you can also built on yourself if one doesnt suit from the PCF Gallery)? Otherwise as explaine in the previous post that's the out-of-the-box behavior unfortunately. Another option if model-driven-apps doesn't satify your UI needs is to go with a canvas app.

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Patrick1995 4 on at

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Hi @EricRegnier, thanks for your reply. If I understand correctly, PCF controls do not work in views. If this is not technically possible, our users will have to live with it.

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EricRegnier 8,720 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hey @Patrick1995 yup, that's correct, we can’t have a PCF controls within an OOB view cell. You can have a whole grid as a PCF control in a model-driven form or have a custom page if you require more control to the UI. Hope this helps!

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