Steve Otte
would you add new, or update the How to Post a Photo to the Forums with instructions for creating clickable links. I needed them recently but couldn't find them.
i had created a post on the Posting a hyperlink to another thread within this forum which comes up empty because the thread got moved to the Community Assistance page.
the problem with the threads that do describe instructions describe embedding a link between the url tabs (replace <> with brackets) <url>http://cs.trains.com/trc/f/733/t/266313.aspx?sort=ASC&pi296=2</url>
http://cs.trains.com/trc/f/733/t/266313.aspx?sort=ASC&pi296=2
but the better way is to create the <url> tag with the link and put a description between the tags:
<url=http://cs.trains.com/trc/f/733/t/266313.aspx?sort=ASC&pi296=2>Posting a hyperlink to another thread within this forum (page 2)</url>
Posting a hyperlink to another thread within this forum (page 2)
thanks
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
http://broadwaylion.com
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
seems to work for me.
ROAR
BroadwayLionhttp://broadwaylion.com
i'm describing how to make link display the title of the thread, "Posting a hyperline to another thread within this forum", not the url of the thread, "http://cs.trains.com/trc/f/733/t/266313.aspx?sort=ASC&pi296=2"
Greg,
Unfortunately, the current forum software will NOT allow you to do that for threads within the MR forums. The only option is to use the bracketed url codes on either end of the URL link. Until Kalmbach updates for software there's no away around it.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Test for linking to other Kalmbach forums...
Chasing 12 inch to the foot (Garden Railways forum)
Lionel motor thrust bearings (Classic Toy Trains forum)
Water tower in the landscape (Trains Magazine forum)
Nope. None of those work...
They fixed that a few months ago......just copy, paste, press enter:
http://grw.trains.com/
Works always for Me....Windows 10, Chrome Browser.
Take Care!
Frank
Frank,
Yes, the URL links work. The specific issue that Greg is interested in is being able to create any title and link a URL to it - like the ones I've listed above. They don't work using the current forum software. They used to in previous versions but not this one. The feature does work, however, for any links outside of the Kalmbach forums.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/268488.aspx
I get it this way. Did Not need target...
When I used Firefox...I always had some kind of trouble, slow, cookies, Java script, etc.
I see a URL but no title and the link doesn't work...for me. I'm using the current version of Firefox.
Tom,
Can You view the link above? I was typing when You answered.
Yes, your link works. Did you see my earlier attempt to link "titles" rather than URLs? That is what does NOT work properly and what the OP wanted a sticky about.
To use this threads title as an example:
can instructions for "posting clickable links" be added to a sticky?
Does that make sense?
I understand what Gregc would like to do....but He has to get with Steve O with a PM to ask if He would add it to the How to Post Photos on the Forums sticky that Steve O created, instead of where it is on the Community Assistance site. Steve O would have to do that on His original sticky thread that He created. Basically move it from where it is.....Just the instructions.
When I link a outside link on the Forums, I never use the link icon, just copy, paste, press enter. To link a forum past thread from the forums, that is when I use the link icon. Seems to always work for Me.
tstageThe specific issue that Greg is interested in is being able to create any title and link a URL to it - like the ones I've listed above. They don't work using the current forum software.
yes the do, if you do it the way I describe.
Once again, link to threads on this forum can be made with titles.
but instead of
<url>http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/268488/3041519.aspx</url>
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/268488/3041519.aspx
you need to do
<url=http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/268488/3041519.aspx>title</url>
title
Sorry, Greg. I missed that part in your original post.
I get the regular part of the URL. Can you post just the title portion of the code so that it's clearer to me? Thanks...
can instructions for "posting clickable links" be added to sticky thread
[Edit: Never mind. I finally figured it out - aka re-remembered how to do it. ]
Here's a link to this thread...
EDIT: Well it looked okay in the preview, but it does work.
Wayne
tstage[Edit: Never mind. I finally figured it out - aka re-remembered how to do it.
i couldn't remember either. The post where i originally explained this got moved and google pointed to an empty page.
this is why i'd like this "how-to" in a sticky