Is it possible to autolink in infobox?

[Alfa1]

The infobox lists terms that have wiki articles. I'd like to turn these into wikilinks so readers can go to the related article and find out what the term means. Is this possible somehow?

[pegasus]

It depends how these terms are added to the infobox, and how the infobox is formed. You can have an infobox you created manually using wiki templates, or you can have an infobox that was created automatically from custom fields.

If the terms are added from within the editor, then they should generally be autolinked. If they are defined within an infobox template, they will not be autolinked. The template itself should build the link.

If they are generated from custom fields, they would only be autolinked if the custom field was a BB-Code field.

[Alfa1]

I'm using the infobox sidebar widget with custom fields. I don't see the possibility to select bb-code field as the custom field type. Where can I find this?

[pegasus]

This type is called "Rich text box" for consistency with the way XenForo defines custom fields. That option allows the user to enter BB-Code in the custom field.

When the BB-Code is rendered, the same kind of parser is used as the main content, which includes the step of generating auto-links. If autolinks are not generated here too, something may be going wrong.

[Alfa1]

Thanks. I added the field but first could not save a page because I was hitting this message:

The submitted message is too long to be processed. Please shorten it.

But none of the fields is longer than 200 characters which is automatically set in the field options. I have changed it to 1000 and it still is not enough. So I changed it to 99999. Now it saves and indeed parses links. This seems to be a bug.

Using the rich text field works after that and wikilinks are parsed.