# Long text to treat as URL

**URL:** <https://community.stackerhq.com/t/long-text-to-treat-as-url/637>\
**Category:** How do I?\
**Tags:** troubleshooting\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.stackerhq.com/t/long-text-to-treat-as-url/637 "2023-03-03T16:41:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Aurelienph31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Aurelienph31](https://community.stackerhq.com/u/Aurelienph31)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.stackerhq.com/t/long-text-to-treat-as-url/637/1 "2023-03-03T16:41:01Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m new to Stacker and try to build an App powered by Airtable. I have formulas in my Airtable that create “Add to calendar” links for Outlook and Google based on event informations such as location, start\_time… Stacker recognized it as “long text”. I need to ask Stacker to treat this as URL in order to display it as button but it seems that it is only possible for short text. Anyone know a way to do it ? Thank you per advance.

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**Author:** ![oli](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.stackerhq.com/oli/32/389_2.png) [@oli](https://community.stackerhq.com/u/oli)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 8:45am UTC](https://community.stackerhq.com/t/long-text-to-treat-as-url/637/2 "2023-03-06T08:45:46Z")

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Hi @Aurelienph31!

One thing you could do is create a formula field that just takes the long text, like below:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/stacker/original/1X/a110028e83534dcb53808e854670e90ab3bb65a9.png)

You can then display that as a button.

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**Author:** ![Aurelienph31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Aurelienph31](https://community.stackerhq.com/u/Aurelienph31)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://community.stackerhq.com/t/long-text-to-treat-as-url/637/3 "2023-03-06T10:35:42Z")

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Thank you Oli, that works great! Do I need to close the topic somewhere?

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**Author:** ![oli](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.stackerhq.com/oli/32/389_2.png) [@oli](https://community.stackerhq.com/u/oli)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://community.stackerhq.com/t/long-text-to-treat-as-url/637/4 "2023-03-06T11:36:52Z")

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The “Solution” checkbox had vanished, but I think it should appear for you now. I’ve marked my reply as the solution anyway, that should do it for now! 🙂