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StevenLo-9a5996
Community Member
5 years ago

Issue with embedded Hyperlinks and Ampersand '&'

Heya all, I have a strange issue when using embedded hyperlinks inside paragraph block. If the link address has an ampersand, the ampersand will change to a ∈ symbol making the link invalid. Pleas...
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GrenForonda
Staff
2 years ago

Hi Olivia!

Thanks so much for bringing this up, Erica! I'm noticing the same thing from my side where the URL shows & in place of the &. However, clicking on the button, it correctly takes me to the correct URL (with the &). Can you verify if you are experiencing the same behavior?

We've shared this with our Engineering team, and we'll reach out to you again if we get any updates on this behavior! 

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NafizaAkter-6fb
Community Member
2 years ago

In my case with SCROM exports, I've seen: 

  1. URLs with "&" get rewritten to "&amps" in some places of the URL; for example, I exported two SCORMS and you'll see that only one & (the first one appearing in the URL) had the additional characters added:
    1. ...39266ede-f2f4-41db-b56a-7137f33df5a4?hidenavbar=true&CourseNumber=227&tenantId=7a916015-20ae-4ad1-9170-eefd915e9272
    2. ...39266ede-f2f4-41db-b56a-7137f33df5a4?hidenavbar=true&CourseNumber=227&tenantId=7a916015-20ae-4ad1-9170-eefd915e9272
  2. The link with the &amp sometimes work, but most of the time do not work for most of our internally hosted materials (Edge Browser)