Add a custom linkification filter
This feature is only available to organization administrators.
Linkifiers make it easy to refer to issues or tickets in third
party issue trackers, like GitHub, Salesforce, Zendesk, and others.
For instance, you can add a filter that automatically turns #2468
into a link to https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/2468.
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Go to Linkifiers.
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Under Add a new linkifier, enter a Pattern and
URL format string.
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Click Add linkifier.
If the pattern appears in a message topic, Zulip can't linkify the topic
itself, since clicking on a topic narrows to that topic. So Zulip
instead provides a little button to the right of the topic that links to
the appropriate URL.
Understanding linkification patterns
This is best explained by example.
Hash followed by a number of any length.
- Pattern:
#(?P<id>[0-9]+)
- URL format string:
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/%(id)s
- Original text:
#2468
- Automatically links to:
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/2468
String of hexadecimal digits between 7 and 40 characters long.
- Pattern:
(?P<id>[0-9a-f]{7,40})
- URL format string:
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/%(id)s
- Original text:
abdc123
- Automatically links to:
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/abcd123
Generic GitHub `org/repo#ID format:
- Pattern:
(?P<org>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/(?P<repo>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)#(?P<id>[0-9]+)
- URL format string:
https://github.com/%(org)s/%(repo)s/issues/%(id)s
- Original text:
zulip/zulip#2468
- Automatically links to:
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/2468
Linkifiers can be very useful, but also complicated to set up. If you have
any trouble setting these up, please email support@zulipchat.com with a few
examples of "Original text" and "Automatically links to" and we'll be happy
to help you out.