Posting - Putting Thread or Post links within posts

[BradM]

Originally Posted by Marc

Let's say you're posting and want to make it easy for someone to find information on quality manuals. You can form a search query as a link within the post:

<url=http://Elsmar.com/Forums/search.php?do=process&titleonly=1&query=quality+manual>Quality Manuals</url>

NOTE: In this example I used < and > instead of [ and ] because even in the 'code' box' the string will appear as a clickable link like this: Quality Manuals instead of your being able to see th code - In this example I am searching for the two words 'quality' and 'manual' and I'm limiting the search to thread titles only.

Is there a way to put a title on a link to a particular thread or to a post? Instead of the poster seeing this big long thread with numbers/letters/etc., is there a way to title it as :supplier evaluation 1, supplier evaluation 2, etc.

If I understand correctly, your example above is in relation to a search, and not necessarily with results found.

For example, is there a way to clean up this link to an post I made with two links?
http://elsmar.com/Forums/showpost.ph...43&postcount=2

[Marc]

Yes. You can make a link with a 'title', if that's what you're asking.

Using the 'Link' button in editing boxes is the first thing.



You should get a 'Requester' box like this:



Fill in the URL:



and click OK. You'll get a link. I looked at your example and there's a lot of 'garbage' I see which you probably don't because it appears you are using the full WYSIWYG editor. That puts in a bunch of 'extra' information such as font sizes and colors, etc.

The bottom line is you want words to show rather than just a url. When a link is made, in the 'raw' it looks like this:

<url="http://Elsmar.com/Forums/showpost.php?p=146042&postcount=10">http://Elsmar.com/Forums/showpost.php?p=146042&postcount=10</url>

NOTE: In this example I used < and > instead of [ and ] because even in the 'code' box' the string will appear as a clickable link.

Note that there is the link and the link is repeated between <url=.....> and </url>. That is the place to put the text you want.

That said, I use the 'standard' editor so I'll see things you don't using WYSIWYG.

Give me a bit and I'll look at this using the WYSIWYG editor to try to see what you see. As I said, the WYSIWYG editor will not show you all the code like the 'standard' editor does.

[Marc]

When using the WYSIWYG editor, if you look at the 'link' in the WYSIWYG editor:



If you highlight a link:



You can type or paste the text you want to show:



Highlight the next link:



and type in what you want to show:



Note that the first link is in bold. If you would look in the 'standard' editor, you'll see for some reason the WYSIWYG editor put in the code for bold. I'm not sure why.

One of the nice things about vBulletin these days is the WYSIWYG editor. But - it's a very difficult aspect of software like this. It ends up putting in a lot of extraneous code for a number of reasons. I am not saying it shouldn't be used, just that I use the standard editor because I want the control over the code.

You CANB switch back and forth between editing modes to see what is there by clicking on the 'switch editor mode' button:

[Miner]

I just type the text that I want to appear as the link, highlight it, click the hyperlink button that you showed, paste in the URL and close it. A lot less work.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Miner

I just type the text that I want to appear as the link, highlight it, click the hyperlink button that you showed, paste in the URL and close it. A lot less work.

Ah! You're using the WYSIWYG interface, correct? I never use that editor and didn't know it worked that way! Thanks for the tip!