As a rule I always use the /data/params/root ($root) parameter to preface URLs - as quite often the project will be worked on within several domains (localhost, test and production) - however I've tried a couple of things and don't seem to be able to get these parameters to work. Is this a limitation?

It would be great if the term "Preview" used for the link-label on the publish-pages wasn't hardcoded but configurable just as the label that's used in the entries tables.

I like the way the "Entry URL Field" manages this and think the separation between "label" (used for the entries-table-header) and "anchor label (used for the links in the table and the header-link on the publish-entry-pages) would be of benefit here too.

Thinking a step further an additional "Use URL instead of anchor label in entries table"-option would be the perfect complementary feature to that, as I actually liked the initial behavior (Pre-PR#1) to show the full URL in the entries table.

This extensions uses the field_id to fetch values from a field (https://github.com/DeuxHuitHuit/link_preview/blob/master/fields/field.link_preview.php#L251):

$fieldValues = $entryData[intval($field->get('field_id'))];

Number Field does not return a field_idvia $section->fetchFields();, so it does not work with this extension.

If I simply use id instead of field_idin this line everything works as expected:

$fieldValues = $entryData[intval($field->get('id'))];

I bet there's a reason for using field_id instead of id in this context, but I have no idea what it might be :) If field_id is the way to go I'd simply post an issues at the "number field"-extension.

But if you'd say one is as good as the other I might simply update my 1.2-PR to use id.

Checking for id if nothing was found with field_id might be an appropriate compromise too - what do you think?

Hi,
I'm coming back to this one #7.

There is no link in entry view for authors with Manager and Author user types. Reason is extension is trying to append link to #context .actions (which is an <ul> element) that is available only for Developers.

My workaround is to append ul.actions every time when it's not present. Like this
if ($('#context .actions').length == 0) $('#context').append('<ul class="actions"></ul>');

Hope I'm not messing up anything...
Regards,
Shin

Is there a way to access the ID of an entry for building the URL?
I tried $id, $entry-id and $system-id, but none of them seems to work.
If another identifier is used it would be great if you could give a hint in the documentation.

If it's not possible yet it would be a great update to this extension.

The call to the system data array doesn't work because every "system:xyz"-variable is stripped down to simply "system" before it's used as a key in the SystemData-array.

This can fixed by rebuilding the full key that way:

    // if nothing was found, revert to SYSTEM_DATA
    if (strlen($value) < 1) {
        $value = $sysData[$variable.':'.$qualifier];
    }

But it feels a little hacky because $variable and $qualifier have to be used in wrong context...

Should I try to come up with a cleaner fix for this that also considers the entry ID (in your prefered way) or do you want to fix this yourself?

And just out if curiosity - wherefore do you use these system dates? As the preview links are generated "live" including the current date/time will result in links that change from time to time - or am I getting this wrong?

As discussed here - just so we don't forget about it ;)

Would definitively do more justice to the flexibility of this extension than the current name.

Trying this extension for the first time.

Proposal
The preview link button could be shown in page context only when the entry already exists, e.g. is edited and not being created. Otherwise it's just a broken link?

Not sure how to do it the nice way, I have tried to do it by checking for a /new/ presence in window url path.

The link appears in the section table, but not in the entry. Looking at the source it appears that something is where it should be, but nothing displays.

This is in a 2.5 build (but I have a feeling I flagged the same issue for 2.4, but no idea where, maybe I just thought about it)

So you can change the label depending on the user language.

This is compatible with Symphony 2.6.3, August release.

This extension is great and I'm sure will help a lot of our clients when updating their website.

However I'm not sure how to get this working for pages where I use the 'page select box' extension.

I have a section titled 'page text' that controls the content of each page, with the page select box field to determine which page on the site the text is assigned to.

I add the link preview field and in the URL Format I enter the handle of the page select box field, which works great. But when I have a page that has a parent the parent isn't brought into the URL format as this is not in the page select box field value.

Does anyone know if it would be possible to edit the code for this to work with the page select box and multi-level page navigation?

Many thanks in advance