# Open Link opens a slightly different link

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [July 21, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382 "2021-07-21T09:59:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![kingzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kingzy/32/15690_2.png) [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/1 "2021-07-21T09:59:50Z")

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Hi, I’ve created a WhatsApp link generator with Glide.

Works great until I realized that the URLs look different.

If you see the image below, the first link on top is missing ‘%0A%0A’ for a space and line break.

The URL below is from Google Sheets, which shows with the ‘%0A%0A’ for space and line break.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/8/b/8b8224d762826183d0a213054415dcb320768516.png)

Any idea how to fix this?

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**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:** [July 21, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/2 "2021-07-21T11:07:59Z")

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Does it make any difference in the displaying screen? I think it’s just related to URL encoding in the browser.

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**Author:** ![kingzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kingzy/32/15690_2.png) [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/3 "2021-07-21T12:05:32Z")

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Oh it does make a lot of difference.

The top link sends a Whatsapp message in One line, but the second URL sends the message With Line breaks. 🙂

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**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:** [July 21, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/4 "2021-07-21T12:06:58Z")

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What you want is line breaks right? So from my understanding you have the right configuration in Sheets but when you use an open link action on that same link it opens the wrong link?

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**Author:** ![kingzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kingzy/32/15690_2.png) [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/5 "2021-07-21T12:07:33Z")

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Yep!

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**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:** [July 21, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/6 "2021-07-21T12:43:32Z")

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Have you tried using the Construct URL column to do that instead of the Sheet?

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**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/7 "2021-07-21T12:47:59Z")

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try to use \n for breaks and %20 for spaces in template column

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**Author:** ![kingzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kingzy/32/15690_2.png) [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/8 "2021-07-21T16:32:42Z")

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tried, didn’t work and it adds a ‘/’ to the end.

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**Author:** ![kingzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kingzy/32/15690_2.png) [@kingzy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kingzy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-link-opens-a-slightly-different-link/29382/9 "2021-07-21T16:33:03Z")

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this isn’t necessary when opening from Sheet, the %20 automatically appears in the URL.
