In our project we have a pathfield in quite a lot of dialog for various custom components which refers/links to pages. After getting the value of this pathfield in the sightly template we were adding the html extension manually on it. e.g. <a class="navbar-brand" href="${properties.homepagePath @ context='unsafe'}">${properties.headerAuthTitle}</a> We can avoid hardcoding the path by adding property in dialog link linkPattern The pathfield xtype has a config option called linkpattern . This allows you to configure the widget to automatically add an extension in case the browsefield is used to select the link. If a user types the text , the extension is not added. Use this option to add '.html' and all internal links will have .html appended (assuming the content authors always use the pathfield's browse option to select the link [which they should be doing ] ). This way the backend code doesn't hav