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PolarSteps Question - How to add a website link that works?

Maurice Frank

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Hello,

I am preparing to walk my first Camino, the Frances, starting in mid-September.

I'm comparing FindPenguins and PolarSteps.

I cannot figure out to paste in a website URL into PolarSteps so that clicking the link brings the user to that web page. When I paste a URL into a PolarSteps step, it becomes text that is not a clickable link.

I checked the PolarSteps support pages and found nothing about this. I also searched this forum and found nothing specifically related to this question.

I have pasted a URL into a FindPenguins footprint and it immediately became a live clickable link. How do I get the same result in PolarSteps?

Most of the members of my local APOC group use PolarSteps, so I want to use that if I can.

Thanks for your help

Maurice Frank
 
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Does the URL you enter have the http or https protocol included? The PolarSteps software may be looking for that to indicate that your text is a link.
 
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Rick of Rick and Peg said:
Does the URL you enter have the http or https protocol included? The PolarSteps software may be looking for that to indicate that your text is a link.
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This is what I pasted into a PolarSteps link:

Polarsteps Help Center

Common questions and support documentation for Polarsteps
support.polarsteps.com

Thank you for your reply
 
Maurice Frank said:
Yes it has the https:// prefix though it doesn’t show here
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Well, I can't help you further with PolarSteps but I can with the forum. The forum software sees your posted link and goes to the page to see if there is anything there to display as a banner. If not it puts in an active link of text and if there is banner information it puts that into the forum post instead. If you don't want that banner edit your post and you will see some code surrounding the URL with some boolean flag indicating True or False. Switch the value of the flag to go between the forum showing a text link or a banner link.
 
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