I am not sure about the hotlink side of things but if you have opened your schedule from a view, then that view's settings will set the layer combination, which may be turning the layer off.
So you may have all layers on in the plan, but when you click on the view to open the schedule, it will reset the layers.
Check the view settings or open the schedule from the Project Map and not the View Map.
If that doesn't work then it could well be that it is part of a hotlink.
Hotlinks are not editable except at the source of the hotlink.
I have never tried custom text in a schedule with hotlinks so I can't really say for sure.
Barry.
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