Intelligently use Link field URL as Entry URL

[amphibian]

I'm often building sections in which each entry is an individual link - these entries are the aggregated into a larger listing of categorized links.

It would be great if when I set the entry URL template for a section to a Link field (e.g. {myLinkField.value}), Craft would correctly create each entry URL as an absolute URL, rather than stripping the protocol and appending the value to the site's Base URL (thus creating a bad link).

e.g., If my Link field contains https://craftcms.com, the entry URL would become https://craftcms.com rather than https://example.com/craftcms.com

[brandonkelly]

Unfortunately this isn’t possible. You’ll notice the setting is actually “Entry URI Format” – as in, you are defining the URIs, not URLs. And they end up stored in a uri column in the elements_sites table, which is what Craft is checking against when figuring out how to route incoming requests. Refactoring to allow full URLs would be a pretty massive undertaking, and for not much/any real gain, as Craft would lose the ability to route elements when they had a full URL.

[amphibian]

Ah, that's too bad, but makes sense. Thanks for laying it out.