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h2. Overview

{excerpt}Ever wanted to allow users to capture a bunch of links in a property that you can output?  You could always use the FarCry CMS Link content type, but its a bit unwieldy, especially if your links are really only related to one specific content item and don't make sense in a library.  Well you are in luck :){excerpt}

Blair has put together a great little "formtool" that captures links and their labels with a nifty jQuery UI, and stores them in a WDDX packet. Deploy it in your project by creating a folder called ./[myprojectnamehere]/packages/formtools and saving the linkwddx.cfc file. Then you can apply the formtool to any longchar property you may have in a content type.

!formtools.png!

And when you are done:

!formtools02.png!


h2. The Code

{gist}:http://gist.github.com/240003.js{gist}

PS. the jQuery plugin we're using seems to have some quirkiness with WebKit, so you may notice in the code that there is a less elegant method of rendering the UI for Safari et al