I wanted to open this topic again as I this was working fine for me, thanks to the posts here, but now it seems to have broken. I don't know if it was due to an update from RS Directory or one from Joomla.
The syntax I have in the form is <a href="{congregationalwebsite}" target="_blank">{title} Website</a>. The field {congregationalwebsite} is the weblink with instructions to be written with http or https, which is what I have used in testing the field. It was appearing fine and the link was opening to a new window.
At some point after one of the upgrades (as I said, I am not sure if it was RS Directory or Joomla or what), this no longer resulted in a clickable link. What now appears is something like this in the directory listing:
WWW.EXTERNALWEBSITE.ORG/" TARGET="_BLANK">EXTERNAL WEBSITE
The first part of this, the
WWW.EXTERNALWEBSITE.ORG/ is a clickable link, but not to an external link, but rather a page on our website that does not exist. The link in our case is to
www.nacar.org/%3Ca%20href=.
Nothing after that is a link and appears as I have entered it here, including the everything from TARGET on forward.
I have tired everything listed here in the forum and everything suggested here:
https://www.rsjoomla.com/support/documentation/rsdirectory/frequently-asked-questions/how-to-create-a-clickable-link-in-rsdirectory.html
As I said, it was all working great before.
Thanks for any assistance.