editing / previewing polls and bookmarking

[Chris]

Two questions to the techies on the forum -

1. Is it possible to preview (or by some other way edit) the options in a poll before posting it? Having just fallen flat on my face it would be nice to know if it can be avoided in the future


2. How do you bookmark a particular post? I notice some people can insert a link to a specific post on another thread that works fine, but I'm not sure: how it done?

Ty

[Graham]

Originally posted by Chris
2. How do you bookmark a particular post? I notice some people can insert a link to a specific post on another thread that works fine, but I'm not sure: how it done?

Basically the URL for a specific post is in this format:

http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/s...9607#post39607

(This is a link to Chris's post incidentally).

All you need to do is to substitute the two "39607"s for the post number that you want to link/bookmark. This is easily discovered by either rolling over or actually pressing one of the buttons associated with the post you want to bookmark (eg. quote). As I don't keep the exact URL format in my head, the trick I use is to perform a general purpose search (using search button at top of page) and view one of the posts on the resulting list, which will give you the URL format. If you were really efficient you could search for the actual post you want to bookmark, which would mean you'd get the actual URL without having to do the post id substitution.

As the link above does not get displayed in full here it is for reference:
http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=39607#post39607

[Chris]

Thanks!

[Chris]

Does anyone know if it's possible to insert a (html) link in the options list on a poll please?

[Graham]

Originally posted by Chris
1. Is it possible to preview (or by some other way edit) the options in a poll before posting it?

Yes. When creating a new thread and requesting a poll, if you press submit a new page opens for you to type in the poll options. On this page there is a button to preview the poll next to the button to submit the poll, just like the preview function you normally get when posting.

Originally posted by Chris
Does anyone know if it's possible to insert a (html) link in the options list on a poll please?

Yes, it's entirely possible. There's an option (default is on) to automatically parse URLs, so all you need to do is paste in the internet address in the poll option (or you can code up the URL tags yourself if you want the displayed text to be different to the URL address).

[azande]

Chris,

the syntax for making a word appear as a link is:
<a href="http://www.whatever.htm" target="_blank">WORD/WORDS</a>

[Chris]

Thanks guys!!

[Graham]

Originally posted by azande
the syntax for making a word appear as a link is:
<a href="http://www.whatever.htm" target="_blank">WORD/WORDS</a>

Actually that's html syntax - the forum supports vB syntax, which is as follows, but using } instead of ] so it displays instead of showing as a link:
[URL=http://www.site.net/home}displayed text[/URL}

[Chris]

It seemed to work when I tried it (with a few tweaks) - whether my 'blatant advertising' poll was worth the effort reamins to be seen, but it was nice finding out how to do it! :-)