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Status Future consideration
Workspace Knowledge Catalog
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 10, 2025

Capability to add "embedded hyperlinks" to text attributes.

We have some custom text attributes where we are storing hyperlinks to some external content.

We offer for example attributes for links to business information model, and for the technical assets stored in another software.

It would make things neater if we could use a user friendly text, with the actual hyperlink underneath. Similar to what Word & Excel support. And actually it seems this text box for the description supports it also (at least I could copy paste such and it seemed to work).  But IKC text box does not.

Needed By Quarter
  • Admin
    Michal Szylar
    Sep 30, 2025

    Hi,

    The requirement is valid — no argument there, and we’ve also heard the same from other customers. We just wanted to better understand the urgency from your perspective.

    As a temporary workaround, you could use a URL accompanied by the textual path.
    For example: "IBM HOME → Products → Knowledge Accelerators (url: https://www.ibm.com/products/knowledge-accelerators)."

    It’s not ideal, but it should help address the use case until we add the requested capability to the product.

    Best regards,
    Michal

  • Admin
    Michal Szylar
    Sep 29, 2025

    Hi Jukka,

    We don’t have a firm date for this RFE yet.
    Can you clarify what the minimum scope would be—just customization of the hyperlink text attribute?

    Please note that today, if the system detects a URL, it’s automatically converted into a clickable link. So this shouldn’t be a blocker for migration.

  • Guest
    Sep 16, 2025

    Do you have any update on this?  Our business keeps asking for this feature to be there for migration.  Otherwise we need to do a mini-migration afterwards + change our BAU datastage job accordingly.

  • Admin
    Michal Szylar
    May 25, 2025

    Hi, it is valid requirement however we are not able to prioritise it for next planning cycle. Once it is prioritised, we will keep you posted.

  • Guest
    May 8, 2025

    In IGC this feature is existing in some text fields