# Collection link out action

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/collection-link-out-action/76760>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [October 2, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collection-link-out-action/76760 "2024-10-02T14:50:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![meganb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/meganb/32/16632_2.png) [@meganb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/meganb)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collection-link-out-action/76760/1 "2024-10-02T14:50:03Z")

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I have a collection where one of the columns are url links. When people click on the item, I have the primary action for the collection set to take people to that link. Some of the links are non-Glide links, so those are easy and I just copy and paste the link into the appropriate row.

However, I want some of the links to take people to things like their personal profile or another tab within the app. I can easily do this action using a button or action row component, but I really want to use a collection so that I can display the items in a list of general announcements and reminders.

For the non-user specific tabs, I can technically copy and paste the link into the appropriate row, but then it opens it into a new tab on a desktop, and on a phone it opens it kind of weird.

For the user specific link, I don’t know how to do that one without using a button or an action row component. Is there a way to do it the way I’m describing?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/collection-link-out-action/76760/2 "2024-10-02T17:54:09Z")

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I’d probably make it a custom action with different branches to do different things, such as open external links, or open detail screens, or open tabs, etc. Just have a value in your table (used by the collection) to indicate which branch the action should use.