I have a list that contains a text field and this text field is used to store an absolute URL to an external web page. Currently the URL gets displayed in the grid view. This takes up a lot of visual space and also doesn't provide any information to the users, as the URLs don't contain any human parseable information. Is there any way to provide a constant link text for all URLs in this column?

this page: https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=urlEncoding
has a related trick where a query is used to generate such a column. However, this results in other functionality lost, such as the ability to edit rows, and I need to retain the list functionality. Additionally, sometimes the field will be empty and then I would like for nothing to be displayed, and I don't think the query solution satisfies this requirement either.

I'm guessing this isn't possible without some on-the-fly replacement via javascript, but maybe someone has another trick.

thanks,

-Will