hi PFZ,

We've talked about this feature before and I believe that we're generally of the opinion that it should be up to the end user to decide whether or not they want to open a new window when clicking a link.  With that said, I don't think there's anything stopping you from adding it via HTML like this:

<a href="http://example.com/" target="_blank">your link</a>

Cheers,

AJ

While I hope my firstpost here doesn't come off too badly, I HAVE to say that when you sell a product and not give it away for free, your opinion should be that what yor customers want, your customers get.  This should be an option and one on the administrative level.  The administrator should be able to enable or disable the ability to turn on and off for a URL to open a new window. 

Really, if the link leaves the site it SHOULD open a new window.  If it stays within the site, then it can or should be inline.  We are no longer in the days of 800x600 resolutions and computers who can't really handle too many browser windows.

Hi guys,

Thanks so much for the great input on the option for defaulting to open a web URL in a new window. It's this kind of input that helps us understand better how you would like the software to work.

Thanks,

Greg

Is there any way to detect whether or not a URL is external, and have only external URLs open in a new window? That would be valuable as a feature, since that is a best practice most websites follow.

Thanks,

Diane

We would also like the option to open a new browser window added to the link option in the editor.  Whether to open a new window on a link or not is a usability issue that has been debated for years.  While you can get bad design anywhere, it should be up to the site to determine if they want to replace the window or open a new one.

Mike

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that we've tentatively scheduled the ability to configure links to open in a new browser window as an enhancement for the Jive SBS Foundation release later this year. There is still a chance it could be pulled from the release due to time and resource constraints, but the intent is to get it in there. We're planning on giving administrators control over whether or not someone can configure the link to open in a new browser window, and whether the default is to open in a new browser window, or not, if the author can configure the link.

In the meantime we figured out a work around. It is clearly not ideal, but might be helpful in some cases. Add "class='jive-link-custom' target='_blank'" (without the double quotes) to the link, and we will not strip out the target attribute. I hope that helps!

This example should work like this:

<a target="_blank" class="jive-link-custom" href="http://www.google.com/">Go to Google</a>

And here it is working: Go to Google

Greg,

Glad to see you guys have it in the works!

This is a very valuable feature, one whose absense has frustrated our users.

If nothing else please provide a way with Wiki syntax to specify opening a new window (don't need fancy UI).

When can I see functionality in 2.5?

Thanks for your response Greg.

I guess our users may never see this functionality since Jive has dropped support for our environment (WebSphere/DB2) indefinitely .