Referencing a custom field in a HTML field

[wolfie19]

Hi, this is my second post, so please bear with me.

I am running 5.5 with no known problems.

I am trying to link to an external website by having a button on the client detail page. I have already managed to get the link field to work and can display the URL of the new site in the detail section. This link works with taking the client reference # (the variable) and connecting without problems. Unfortunately I have 2 problems with this:

1. long URL looks messy
2. link opens in same page/tab as Sugar - not ideal

I have now started to look at creating a button using the HTML field. This works as intended if I hard code the client reference #, but when I try to add any of the custom fields into the URL, the smarty compiler errors with:

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in cache/modules/Contacts/DetailView.tpl line 219]: syntax error: unrecognized tag xxxxxxxl_c' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 580) in /var/www/xxxxxxx/include/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

Any help or suggestions would be gratefully received on this.

Thanks

[wolfie19]

OK, so I have now got past the compile error from Smarty.

What I am getting now, is the answer to my query being ARRAY not the value of the field that I was requesting.

Anyone have an idea on where I should look to resolve this?

Thanks

[wolfie19]

This has to be a first by me! I have actually resolved my own post

thanks to the link from P-Unterberg, referenced here:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...marty+compiler

I realised that i had not added the .value to the
<p><a href=insert link here?userid={$fields.fieldname.value}" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none; ;" src=image" alt="" width="25" /></a></p>

I hope that this helps anyone else doing this.