Linking to Custom Scheme

Dev
1

Hello All,

We are setting up our new discourse internal environment and I was able to setup a custom URL scheme to link to an internal resource on the network, I wanted to add an easy button when making a new post which I was able to do but I want to be able to use the highlighted text for the link title as well as for the actual link itself. Right now I am just using an apply surround to insert what we need into a link but we have to manually change the link title, see the code below.

<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="1.0">
api.onToolbarCreate(toolbar => {
    toolbar.addButton({
        id: "dms_button",
        group: "fontStyles",
        icon: "fab-wikipedia-w",
        perform: e => e.applySurround("[id_here](INET://", ')')
    });
});
</script>

user enters 123456 > that applies this around the highlighted text [id_here](INET://123456)

I did look through the code but I could not find anything that would help me accomplish what we are looking to do. Is there anyway to use the highlighted text in the link title as well?

2

So you want the text you select to appear twice?

I don’t think that function will allow you to do that?

Have you thought about overriding the onebox logic to work with your protocol?

3

The protocol works fine, I can use inet:// as needed but I was just looking for an easy way for user to insert the custom URL into a post. In the previous form (phpbb) we made a custom bbcode for the link that worked however I was looking for an easier solution with discourse.

4

so Discourse already supports oneboxing of inet:// links?

5

It does not out of the box. So what you’re referring to is to create a onebox plugin for inet:// which will format the link the way I need?

So when user enter inet://12345
onebox preview will actually contain the proper formatted link?

6

My suggestion was that rather than doing something so low level in the composer, “simply” modify the oneboxing subsystem so it formats inet:// links just like https:// links.

Specifically I’m referring to the way it formats inline like so: Dark/Light Mode Toggle - #20 by jordan-vidrine

All I had to do was paste the link, Discourse looked at the target and created a nice linked title for me from the og tags.

This of course assumes your organisation has control over the og tags on the target linked pages.