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

Maurice Frank

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Frances Sept-Oct 2023, Portuguese July-Aug 2024
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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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.
 
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.
 
Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
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:


Thank you for your reply
 
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.
 
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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.
Thanks, I did not know about the ability to change the flag.
 

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