Rewrite Results -> Output as Link: How do I get this to work? Ok, so I have a table in my database that I am outputting by using a combination of the data module to bring in a table from my database and the views module so it can be displayed.  The page with the view can be seen at http://apollo.tbc.iit.edu/~spaceweather/?q=distribute-data.

I want to enable the column fileSymlink to output as a link.

Below is an example of what the table looks like.



In order to try to enable the links in the last column:


Go to edit view
Click on the column in the fields section that corresponds to that column (i.e., fileSymlink)
Open the drop down "Rewrite Results"
Check to enable "Output this field as a link"


There is then a text form I need to fill out and I'm unsure what to put there. The text in the column is the link. For example if someone clicked on the text in the column DownloadData/cases/grid108/297/txt/channel_dataout_2013_297_0100.log, it would take them to 
apollo.tbc.iit.edu/~spaceweather/DownloadData/cases/grid108/297/txt/channel_dataout_2013_297_0100.log.

Am I doing this correctly, or should I be actually storing the HTML in the columns and having views render HTML instead?  

I'm not set on one way of doing this, if there is any better way. Any suggestion is very appreciated.
Don't the instructions for the link field tell you that you can use tokens in the URL?  I do not have a view with a text field handy, but here is a screenshot from a view where I make a custom link for the title field:



Scroll down to the Replacement Tokens and expand that field.  One of the options should be something like [field_fileSymLink].  Then you should be able to use something like http://apollo.tbc.iit.edu/~spaceweather/[field_fileSymLink] or maybe just /[field_fileSymLink].