# Is there a way to let businesses share their profile to the public? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [February 8, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273 "2022-02-08T22:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Katelyn\_Alberts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/katelyn_alberts/32/44421_2.png) [@Katelyn\_Alberts](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Katelyn_Alberts)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/21 "2022-02-21T00:25:59Z")
šŸ˜” none of them are working. First pic is email, second pic is sms ![Screenshot_20220220-192735_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/b/0/b04217c08d3ab898e28ac2ad77ae730f2599a287.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20220220-192234_Messages](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/d/2d24cace132d3f01a0efcfd0b3f701701a4ead7e.jpeg) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/22 "2022-02-21T00:55:41Z")
Thatā€™s where it really depends. A url shortening service is going to take that url and give you a shortened version of it, but itā€™s a bit of work to get something like that set up. There are a handful of posts in the forum where people have achieved it with some third party tools or scripting. The `a href` tag that weā€™ve been talking about here is just an html link. Itā€™s the same as many links that you see on other websites, where the url is hidden by a friendly word or sentence. It doesnā€™t change the underlying url. It just makes it nicer to look at. [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) and [Jeff thinks Google Rocks!](https://www.google.com) are both clickable links pointing to the same `www.google.com` url, but one just looks cooler. The problem is that not everything will render html. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it will not. In some cases, email clients and social media sites will take a url by itself and render it into a nice looking version, but that depends on a lot of things. Thereā€™s no guarantee that every email client, sms client, social media, or anything else will render just the url into a friendly version or will allow you to feed it html code. The only guarantee to have a short url is to run glideā€™s deep links through a third party url shortening service. Here is a random selection of topics that discuss url shortening. > [@Shortly - Free Custom URL Shortener App](https://community.glideapps.com/t/shortly-free-custom-url-shortener-app/15708): > > Hello again! I was so happy with the response to my latest project that I decided to build a new one: Shortly is a Free Custom URL shortener built using GooLNK API. You can create as many shortened links as you want and they remain saved so you can use it later. Another super simple but useful app built in less than a day, hope you like it! [https://shortly.glideapp.io/](https://shortly.glideapp.io/) > [@Shortening URL - either bit.ly or short.io](https://community.glideapps.com/t/shortening-url-either-bit-ly-or-short-io/36405): > > Continuing the discussion from [Link shortener with Experimental column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-shortener-with-experimental-column/32380/4): Hi, Iā€™ve recategorized this for ā€œHow Toā€ as Iā€™m not sure this need to be under an experimental code. Trying to shorten a url using either bit.ly or [short.io](http://short.io). This worked perfectly on Google Script, but I cannot get it to work on Glide. Tried all possible column types, including the experimental code suggested in the discussion above. From [Short.io](http://Short.io), I got this url: [https://api.short.io/links/tweetbot?domain=YOURDOMAIN&apā€¦](https://api.short.io/links/tweetbot?domain=YOURDOMAIN&apiKey=SECRETKEY&originalURL=https://google.com/) > [@new Deep Links](https://community.glideapps.com/t/deep-links/15966/19): > > Hi wave @Brice just saying as a work around maybe, just maybe, use the Zapier shortener? Perhaps thats a work around for you? Not tried it myself so canā€™t provide any further information. > [@Can I shorten the deep link url?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-i-shorten-the-deep-link-url/34166): > > See below. Would love a short link. > [@Link Shortener](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-shortener/21520): > > Does anyone know of any integrations that can be used to shorten the link to screen link? I am looking for a solution that will automatically take the glide link to screen link and shorten it. Something like a [https://bitly.com/](https://bitly.com/) integration or something of the sortā€¦ > [@Get shoturl from zapier on glideapps](https://community.glideapps.com/t/get-shoturl-from-zapier-on-glideapps/32230): > > how to get shoturl from zapier on glideapps, currently it is possible to configure the url of each page in glideapps ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/23 "2022-02-21T01:34:18Z")
I noticed one of those links there (in row 12) is a builder link, make sure you fix that before going live with the feature. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/24 "2022-02-21T02:10:21Z")
Well spotted! šŸ” šŸ§ ---
**Author:** ![Katelyn\_Alberts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/katelyn_alberts/32/44421_2.png) [@Katelyn\_Alberts](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Katelyn_Alberts)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/25 "2022-02-21T21:23:15Z")
Thank Jeff, So it seems like there just isnā€™t a way to do what Iā€™m looking for internally then? So Iā€™ll probably end up doing it through bit.ly or [short.io](http://short.io). or zapier Is it still a problem with glide that you canā€™t do it, though, if the content is on glide tables instead of sheets? ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/26 "2022-02-22T01:01:46Z")
> [@Katelyn\_Alberts](#): > > Is it still a problem with glide that you canā€™t do it, though, if the content is on glide tables instead of sheets? While doing this with a google sheet would probably be easier, since you could probably have integromat or zapier handle the process, I think it might still be possible with glide tables. I honestly havenā€™t done any url shortening myself, so I canā€™t advise on an exact procedure. According to this thread below, it seems like it could be possible within Glide. Might be worth asking in some of those other threads to see if the people that have done it can answer your questions. > [@Shortening URL - either bit.ly or short.io](https://community.glideapps.com/t/shortening-url-either-bit-ly-or-short-io/36405): > > Continuing the discussion from [Link shortener with Experimental column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-shortener-with-experimental-column/32380/4): Hi, Iā€™ve recategorized this for ā€œHow Toā€ as Iā€™m not sure this need to be under an experimental code. Trying to shorten a url using either bit.ly or [short.io](http://short.io). This worked perfectly on Google Script, but I cannot get it to work on Glide. Tried all possible column types, including the experimental code suggested in the discussion above. From [Short.io](http://Short.io), I got this url: [https://api.short.io/links/tweetbot?domain=YOURDOMAIN&apā€¦](https://api.short.io/links/tweetbot?domain=YOURDOMAIN&apiKey=SECRETKEY&originalURL=https://google.com/) ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273/27 "2022-02-22T01:10:14Z")
> [@Link shortener with Experimental column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/link-shortener-with-experimental-column/32380/4): > > I used Davidā€™s [fetch column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fetch-column/31731), Construct URL and This [API](https://is.gd/apishorteningreference.php) Here are Screenshots Construct URL: Experimental Column with Davidā€™s code https://column.sh/fetch: Caveat: This column has a never-ending spinning on loading on iPhones. It works well with Androids. This did work in my case. [Previous page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-let-businesses-share-their-profile-to-the-public/38273.md?page=1)