Problem with URLs not hyperlinking in AGOL Pop-Ups

AmyRoust

I have a dataset with a field that is either populated with a web address (https://....) or the text N/A. If there is a URL, I want to display it as a hyperlink in the pop-up so that the end user can just click to open it. I wrote up a conditional statement in Arcade and tried to plug it into HTML view in the pop-up custom configuration, but it only returns the HTML code in the pop-up, rather than recognizing the <a href> tag and adding the link.

Here is my Arcade code:

var webURL = $feature["Location_website"]
var linkYes = '<a href="{Location_website}" target="_blank"><b>{Location_website}</b></a>'
var linkNo = 'Website: <b>{Location_website}</b>'

when(webURL == 'N/A', linkNo, linkYes)

 And here is where I put the expression (I replace the highlighted text with {expression/expr0}

And here is the pop-up (forgive my messy redaction work):

 

Is there a better way to do this? I don't want to use the WYSIWYG editor to insert a hyperlink because I don't want N/A to be an active link that goes to nowhere.

 

 

 

XanderBakker

Hi @AmyRoust ,

 

I notice that you are trying to return HTML from the Arcade expression. This does not work in ArcGIS Online (it does in Pro). When you return HTML from an Arcade expression it will interpret it as plain text and not as HTML.

What you need to do is use a different approach. Have a look at this post: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-documents/conditional-field-display-with-arcade-in-pop-ups-revisited/ta-p/920869 Here you will see that you can conditionally display part of your content.

So, your HTML should include both cases (link available and link not available), but depending on the situation you will hide or show each part. This will multiple expressions, but it is not very complex to achieve this.