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.
BMMECNYC,
This has been an ongoing issue since a couple of software upgrades ago. Here’s the workaround:
Place a bracketed “url” (minus the quotes) on the front end of the link and a bracketed “/url” (minus the quotes) on the backside of the link. It will then become clickable like the following:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx
The baffling thing is that the old way of creating links still works when you use it in a PM. For whatever reason it just doesn’t work when posting it here in a thread. [sigh]
Tom
I’ll try this, just copied your original link.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx
See if this works.
Mike.
Edit: Nope, didn’t work. I tried the Ctrl-v method I use when posting links or photos.
Edit: And the only time I have problem with that method, is posting to a link in here, as you are trying.
mbinsewi,
I tried copying BMMECNYC’s link URL from his orignal post and ran into the same issue. After experimenting a bit I discovered if I pasted the URL directly into another browser address field and copied that URL, I could then paste it back into the my post (with the aforementioned url prefix and suffix) and it worked. For whatever reason, copying and pasting the URL from the body of another post doesn’t seem to work.
I wish this nagging issue would get addressed but I don’t think it’s a high priority with Kalmbach.
Tom
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/247652.aspx
url in brackets first, paste the top-level thread link, then close with “/url” in brackets. This is what I type (red only for emphasis):
Seems to work every time for me.
Okay here goes:
Thank you.
That worked. Can we merge this into a sticky thread or just the key points of it? Call it a known forum problem workaround thread?
Never mind, I’m not getting it [D)] Do you still click on the link chain thingy?
Mike
“[url]” insert thread here “[url]” a / goes between the [ and the u
remove quotes.
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
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”.
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.
Yep, that worked for me and I did not use the Insert/edit link.
Rich
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…
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.
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. [:S]
Tom
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
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.
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