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I have transitioned from our site from EE1.7.1 to 2.5.2.  All of our existing entries on the website are showing up fine, so I know it is not a template issue.  When adding new entries, I am having problems with audio/video link fields coming out with tagged to the ends.  Cannot figure out why. 

The text being entered into the field is only a URL:

<a href="http://www.riverlakeschurch.org/files/sermons/2012-05-27.mp4">http://www.riverlakeschurch.org/files/sermons/2012-05-27.mp4</a>

But when {video-url} is displayed on the site, it comes out as

<a href="http://www.riverlakeschurch.org/files/sermons/2012-05-27.mp4">http://www.riverlakeschurch.org/files/sermons/2012-05-27.mp4</a>

This doesn’t work to try and create links, open up the video files in a Lightbox window, etc.

Do you enter the links inside the entry or in a separate field?
If in a separate field you need to set formatting to “none”
If in an entry I guess the editor you use have some kind of “embed url” or “inset movie” feature.

/patrick

Thanks for the quick reply.  There is a unique field for audio and video links, separate from all other fields for these entries.  The formatting is set to none, override is not allowed.

Thought it would help to add some more detail…...and just to reaffirm, this is only a problem with NEW entries.  There is NO problem with existing entries from before I update EE.

Here is the template code:

Here is the result:

<li class="listen"><a >http://www.riverlakeschurch.org/files/sermons/audio/2012_The Good Life/2012-06-03.mp3" title="Listen to MP3 Audio">Listen</a></li>       
<li class="watch"><a >http://www.riverlakeschurch.org/files/sermons/video/2012_The Good Life/2012-03-06.mp4'})" title="Watch MPEG Video">Watch</a></li>

Here is a screen shot of my channel field setup:

If I remember correctly I also needed to turn off the feature “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” for the channel in question
Found under “Edit Preferences”-“Channel Posting Preferences”

/p

Yes, I already did that.  Otherwords it would be turning my URL’s into links, which is not the problem I’m having.  I’m getting unwanted tags.

I learned my lesson with that last time 😊

Strange

I have the exact same thing on my site (working 2.5.0)

I did some testing on the my test-site (running 2.5.2) and there’s no problem at all.

Created a channel called “misc”
Created a custom field called “playlist”
Did the above settings
Created an entry titled “Link to the thread” with the url to this thread in the custom field

Entered the following code on my site

{exp:channel:entries channel="misc" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="1" }
<a href="http://{playlist}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

voila

ok, thanks.  doesn’t really help me a whole lot.  i can’t delete the channel and start fresh.  i’ve got years worth of data entries pre-existing.  no choice but to find the bug with the current setup and fix it.

Sorry about that, I hope the guys from EE can do better..
There’s always the low_replace module to rip out the formatting, but that’s more of a workaround than a solution…

/patrick

No problem.  Appreciate your input.  I am using low_replace as a patch, because I cannot leave the page non-functional.  Really hoping the EE folks can provide some help though.

When you look at the options for this particular field, what is the option set for Default Text Formatting?

The Default Text Formatting is set to none, and override is disabled.  I attached a screen shot that shows all of the settings in a post above.

Any help from EE available?  This is the only way I can see from the website to request support.

When you set the field formatting to “none” did you go and re-edit the entry and save it (no need to change anything)?

If not, do that, then clear out your EE cache so your front end templates are recached with the new version.