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

[Maurice Frank]

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

 

[Maurice Frank]

Moderators: thank you for moving my post to the correct subforum, and I apologize for missing that one when I scanned the list of where to post.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

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.

 

[Maurice Frank]

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.

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]

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

Yes it has the https:// prefix though it doesn’t show here.

The link is https:// support. Polarsteps. Com

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Yes it has the https:// prefix though it doesn’t show here

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.

 

[Maurice Frank]

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.

Thanks, I did not know about the ability to change the flag.

 

[France25]

I didn`t know about it too)