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How do you create active links in the Task Description field?

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calvin4
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I am trying to use Thunderbird Tasks as my main To Do application but I am running into several problems. One has to do with links in the description field.

I can select text in the description field, click the link icon and enter a URL. (Surprisingly, ctrl-K does not work in the description field.)

I can then save the task. Later when I open it again. I see the blue link in the text like it's an active URL. But I can see no way to click it and open the link. The description is always in edit mode and it just lets me edit the text. I have tried clicking, ctrl-click, shift-click, etc. There seems to be no way to have that link open into a web page.

Any suggestions?

I am trying to use Thunderbird Tasks as my main To Do application but I am running into several problems. One has to do with links in the description field. I can select text in the description field, click the link icon and enter a URL. (Surprisingly, ctrl-K does not work in the description field.) I can then save the task. Later when I open it again. I see the blue link in the text like it's an active URL. But I can see no way to click it and open the link. The description is always in edit mode and it just lets me edit the text. I have tried clicking, ctrl-click, shift-click, etc. There seems to be no way to have that link open into a web page. Any suggestions?

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sfhowes
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It appears to be this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1737635

If a link is added as an attachment to a task, double-click or Open from context menu does launch the link.

calvin4
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@sfhowes Thanks. THere's some comfort in knowing it's an existing bug.

For the record though, when i try to asve a URL as a web page attachment to a task, It will let me save, but when I open the task again, the attachment as disappeared. So I still have no way to get a hot link. Can you confirm that web page attachements on tasks forks for you?

calvin4
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@sfhowes OK after some experimentation, it appears that if your task is stored on a local calendar, attached web pages are preserved and clickable. But if you use an online caldav based server for the task list, the web page attachments are lost. i'm using a bluehost.com-hosted caldav server for the task list. So far that seems to be the only thing that is not being preserved, but I haven't tested it extensively.

The task list capability of Thunderbird seems very incomplete and buggy, which is very unfortunate. This is getting soooo close to being an Outlook killer, but stuff like this keeps getting in the way....

Calvin

sfhowes
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When I save a URL as a task attachment, it is still there if I reopen the task, and also if I restart TB. The link has the complete syntax https://example.org I don't know why it would disappear on your setup.

sfhowes
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Yes, my test was with a local calendar. If a network calendar such as Google is selected, the Tasks tab shows the attached picture, even though tasks are part of Google calendars. It might work differently with other providers.