JV,

Do you want to create a mail hyperlink? If so, you can use:

<a href="mailto:<email here>" />

Or did I misunderstand the question?

Cheers,

/Dirk

Sorry Dirk,

No it's not as simple as that. I want to be able to add links into my footer nav that link directly to email links.

Hence I would like to create a node that links can be redirected to an email link, or to any external website page. eg: http://www.google.com

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers,

JV

Hi JV

If I understand you correctly I think the easiest and most flexible approach in this case would be to define a rich text editor property on for instance your frontpage document type where you can the make a list of links, which can be inserted into your footer. Within the Rich Text Editor you have the possibility to insert e-mail links, internal links and external links.

/Jan

Hi JV,

Do you already have a document-type for your "Redirect Hyperlink" nodes?  If so, what have you called the property/field for the link?

Are you using an XSLT/macro to display the navigation?  If so, could you provide a snippet of the XSLT? One of us should be able to help you out.

Basically whatever property/field you use in your "Redirect Hyperlink" document-type, just output that as your URL/link in your XSLT.

Let us know.

Cheers, Lee.

Hi Lee,

i'm not using a document type, just "umbracoRedirect".

Here's a snippet of the footer navigation:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
    version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">


<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:call-template name="drawNodes"> 
<xsl:with-param name="parent" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node [@level=1]"/> 
</xsl:call-template>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="drawNodes">
<xsl:param name="parent"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$parent/node [string(./data [@alias='footerMenu']) = '1' and (umbraco.library:IsProtected(@id, @path) = false() or umbraco.library:HasAccess(@id, @path) = true())]">
<li><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
<xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
</a></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm not sure that what you are trying to do is possible...

Are you sure that what you need to do is make an anchor, that directs people to your e-mail link in your footer?

/Jan

The umbracoRedirect is for a page redirect. You can read a bit more about it's usage in here http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-best-practices/umbracoredirect

Thanks Jan,

I'm not sure if it's possible either, I haven't found anything that would allow such a thing.

Ideally the footer links would redirect to external web pages or email addresses. However I'm not adding these manually to the template as I am applying user role protection to some of these links. So that only certain member types can see these links.

At the moment they are linking to an internal page, then the external link is on this page. Which although is a solution, is not ideal, and does not work as nicely as the above suggestion would.

Awesome! Thanks Lee, that works perfectly.

I'll be sure to use your advice about mailto links, as we don't want to receive bundles of spam. Does anyone think using TinyURL links instead of mailto is a smart option?

Take a look at reCAPTCHA's Mailhide offering...

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/

Nice!

Thanks Lee, will be implementing that for sure.

Cheers,
JV

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