Also, add the keyboard shortcut cmd/ctrl + K to open the link edit window.
— WORKAROUND —
I found a simple workaround to add links to the multiline text fields. Create the hyperlink in something like Google Docs/Word/Pages and copy/paste it into the multiline field. Tape will recognize the hyperlink, and it works fine. Here is how the workaround works with Google Docs:
You won’t be able to edit the link. You will need to delete it and copy/paste it again. This workaround does not work in the comments. Additionally, it works with the “Display a message on a web page” automation action, but the links are not blue, which is confusing.
I wanted to give this a bump. It’s interesting how the API will allow HTML that includes hyperlinks, that they show up in Tape and are working, but there’s no way in Tape to add them. Surely this must be an easy add?
In both these platforms, you can create decent “document-like” fields on the records, and you can add images, tables, and links to other records.
Even though I put the feature request two years ago, I don’t think adding just a hyperlink is enough. The Tape’s multiple-line text field needs to be recreated to match what other platforms offer. And to please add a new “Raw long text field” for more advanced stuff.
Jira uses ProseMirror as the core editing engine, but they wrap it with their own React components and integrate it deeply with their Atlassian Design System. ProseMirror is cool because it’s open source.
Specifically, they build custom ProseMirror plugins and extensions to handle Jira-specific features like: @mentions for users and teams
Issue linking (like JRA-1234 references)
Emoji support
Table editing
Code blocks
Media embedding
The React wrapper provides the UI chrome - toolbars, buttons, dropdown menus - while ProseMirror handles all the actual text editing, document state, and transformations under the hood.
Smartsuite uses Quill. Quill is a great middle ground - it’s more user-friendly to implement than ProseMirror but more flexible than something like TinyMCE. Plus it has really clean APIs for customization.
I’d love for the new records/comments to have similar tech under the hood.
