Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Updating Links

This is topic Updating Links in forum Grist for the Mill at Hatrack River Writers Workshop.

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Posted by Treamayne (Member # 9700) on :

I wasn't sure where best to put this for everyone to see, I thought this would be a good place to start.

If you have older posts with links from before the forum updated and you want to update those links without a whole bunch of legworking searching for the correct thread you had before, this shortcut should help you:

Old Links look like this:

http://www.hatrack.com/forums/writers/forum/Forum1/HTML/001372.html

Note the Forum Number (1 in this example) and the thread number (001372 in this example)

When you edit a post to update a link, you can copy the following example (or copy the URL in your browser address bar) and make the following changes:

http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/ubbwriters/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=X;t=XXXXXX;p=0&r=nfx

F= the forum nuber from above
T= the thread number from above
P= the page number of the thread if you want to link to something other than the beginning of the thread

So it should look like this;

http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/ubbwriters/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001372;p=0&r=nfx

As far as I can tell this should work for updating any/all of the old style links.

Hope somebody finds this useful.

V/R

AT
Aiden Treamayne

Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :

Wow! Treamayne, you have earned your keep around here for the next year or so. Thank you, thank you, thank you!