Question

I love how FogBugz automatically creates hyperlinks on the case view page whenever it sees something like http://www.foo.com or https://secure.bar.org.

Can you make it auto-link URLs for other protocols that I use? For example:

• ftp://ftp.google.com
• file://fileserver/config.txt
• gopher://quux.org

Answer 1

This isn't built directly into FogBugz for security reasons. However, you can install the BugMonkey plug-in and insert the following JavaScript to link other protocols:

name:          Auto-link more protocols in cases
description:   Makes links out of ftp:// file:// mailto:// etc in cases
author:        Rob Sobers
version:       1.0.0.0

js:

jQuery.fn.addlink = function ()
{  
    var regex = /((ftp|telnet|gopher|file|news|mailto)\:\/\/\w*(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\/\$\-_\@\!\*\""\'\(\)\,\=\;\#\?\:\+\%\~]*)*[a-zA-Z0-9\/])/igm
    return this.each(function ()
    {
      if (this.className.indexOf("editable") < 0 && this.innerHTML.indexOf("emailActions") < 0) {
        this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(regex, "<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>");
      }
    });
};
$(".bugevent .body").addlink();
$(".bugevent .emailBody").addlink();

You can modify the RegEx to include (or remove) protocols as you wish.

Answer 2

Here's another version that targets Wiki pages and auto-links UNC paths of the type \\server\share:

name:          Auto-link UNC share paths
description:   Makes links out of \\server\share in Wiki pages
author:        Rob Sobers
version:       1.0.0.0

js:

jQuery.fn.addlink = function ()
{
    var regex = /(\\\\([a-z0-9_.$]+)\\([a-z0-9_.$]+))/igm
    return this.each(function ()
    {
      this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(regex, "<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>");
    });
};

$('#wiki-page-content .article-content').addlink();