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  • The process for this is broken.  When I copy a link into the forum post this is what happens:

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    In my post screen it shows up as a hyperlink, when I click post, it goes away.

    When I highlight and click the link button in the toolbar, paste the URL the same thing happens.  Once I click post, it un-hyperlinks.  

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    Edit:

    It happens when editing as well.

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  • BMMECNYC

    To change the appearance of your link, try this: 

    Add left bracket + "URL="+link address+right bracket. Type a description, followed by left bracket+/URL+right bracket. Omit the quotation marks.

    Description

    The URL will be embedded in the link, and the only thing that will show is the description text. Omit the quotation marks when you enter it. Notice where the brackets are.

  • For some years I have used the manual method and copy and paste.

    Well a sticky might work but some never bother to check out the forums carefully.

    Some still come into the forums and post in the first forum questions for Model Railroader forums. Clearly says this is not the Model Railroader forum.

    Same thing about posting photos question with the answer in the Model Railroader General discussion forum. Some just do not bother to look around.

    Rich

     

    If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.

  • A big BUMP.  This thread needs to be up front, to explain, what should be a simple process, but it's not, Huh?  to post a thread from the forums, back to the forums.

    Mike.

  • If you don't feel like dealing with brackets, copy the link, go to tinyurl.com and follow the directions to make a shorter link and copy that to you clipboard, the use the link icon  https://tinyurl.com/y9eh9c9y

     

    Henry

    COB Potomac & Northern

    Shenandoah Valley

  • tstage
    I wish this nagging issue would get addressed but I don't think it's a high priority with Kalmbach. Tom

    I'll second the suggestion that this be addressed in a Sticky under the General thread.  I'm sure they don't want lots of Stickies there but this is a longer term issue and would be useful for everyone, much like the post a photo info item. 

    Paul

    Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent

  • cuyama

    the above approach works fine.   But unlike other links it doesn't provide a description of what is being linked to.   In the above case, the description is the URL.

    the URL can be part of the tag following an "=" and description delimited by the tags.  replace "<>" with "[]" in following

    <url=http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx>Kato SD9043MAC DCC/sound install</url>

    Kato SD9043MAC DCC/sound install

    greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading

  • BMMECNYC
    mbinsewi

    Never mind, I'm not getting it Dunce  Do you still click on the link chain thingy?

    Mike

    No, don't use the chain link icon at all.  It is what is broken.

    Paste the url into the message manually then type

    "url" address goes here "/url".

    Correct.  The chain link icon works just fine with any external URL that is NOT a Kalmbach forum link.  It just doesn't work for internal links for some reason. Tongue Tied

    Tom

    https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling

    Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.

  • I find that when I post links they don’t work but when I edit my reply and fix the links they work fine just by pasting the link back into the space for Url in the link form. Sometimes you just have to out smart the computer.

    Modeling a fictional version of California set in the 1990s Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad
  • richhotrain

     

     
    richhotrain
     
    richhotrain

    I just copied and pasted the link provided in the initial post and added the url at the beginning and end. Let's see if that worked.

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    Rich 

    Yep, that worked for me and I did not use the Insert/edit link. 

    Rich

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx 

     

     

    LOL

     

    It works when I add the url before and after the link but when I "ADD Quote to your Post", the link does not work in the quoted portion of my reply. Go figure.

    Rich

     

    Cant win them all...

     

  • richhotrain
     
    richhotrain

    I just copied and pasted the link provided in the initial post and added the url at the beginning and end. Let's see if that worked.

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    Rich 

    Yep, that worked for me and I did not use the Insert/edit link. 

    Rich

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx 

    LOL

    It works when I add the url before and after the link but when I "ADD Quote to your Post", the link does not work in the quoted portion of my reply. Go figure.

    Rich

    Alton Junction

  • richhotrain

    I just copied and pasted the link provided in the initial post and added the url at the beginning and end. Let's see if that worked.

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    Rich

     

     

    Yep, that worked for me and I did not use the Insert/edit link.

    Rich

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

     

    Alton Junction

  • http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    OK, as they say, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while!

    Mike.

  • mbinsewi

    Never mind, I'm not getting it Dunce  Do you still click on the link chain thingy?

    Mike

     

    No, don't use the chain link icon at all.  It is what is broken.

    Paste the url into the message manually then type

    "url" address goes here "/url".

     

  • I just copied and pasted the link provided in the initial post and added the url at the beginning and end. Let's see if that worked.

    http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx

    Rich

     

    Alton Junction