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Main question: Why does the link appear with <angle brackets> around it? And how can I stop it doing that?

The trigger is Airtable: When a record enters a view. The record has a long text field, which includes a link. Something like “Hey everybody, come to this thing! Here’s the Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/bunchanumbers”. Definitely 100% no <angle brackets> in the Airtable record (see screenshot).

No angle brackets to be seen around that link.

Yet somehow his long text field comes into Zapier <with angle brackets around the link>. 

Out of the blue, <> around the link.

The <> appears in the Facebook and Instagram posts the next actions make, which isn’t catastrophic, but it feels a bit awkward and unprofessional.

<So why the angle brackets? Any clues?>

Hi @Sigurdur130 

That likely dependss on how the Caption field is being populated in Airtable.

You can use Formatter > Text > Replace steps in the Zap to handle the <>.

 

Using a formatter step seems so obvious in hindsight. Thanks, Troy =)

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