https Source URL Name Citation Issue

Discussion in Technical Forum started by William D Flanagan, Jun 4, 2015
WF
William D Flanagan
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I keep some of my sources on an external website.

Within "Stories", I can create a link to the site with href and the URL.

However, when I add the address to the URL bar within "Source Edit", the link fails while in "family member" view mode. It fails because the Tribal pages program auto fills my url with http:// at the beginning.

So, if I enter a URL of https://www.some_external_site.com, the link appears as http://https://www.some_external_site.com and fails.

Deleting the https:// part of my URL does not work no does trying to do so with href work.

There may be no solution. If, in the future, the pre-filled http:// could be eliminated without harm to existing links, that would be helpful.

If there IS a solution, I'm all ears.

Thank you,

Bill F.

(A very satisfied TP user regardless)

DW
David Wilson
I have had the same problem.

I found, though, that the https:// site (in this case Google Sites) responds just as well to the http:// address.

(Although you indicated that this doesn't work for you.)

WF
William D Flanagan
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I have had the same problem. I found, though, that the https:// site (in this case Google Sites) responds just as well to the http:// address. (Although you indicated that this doesn't work for you.)
To David and Les,

(I'm sending the same message to each of you as i don't know if a reply to just Les or to just David or to just myself notifies any of the others.)

Thanks to your suggestions that I should experiment, I did and found a non https related issue.

Within Sources, I choose a source to edit so that I could paste in a URL to the external location. But, BUT, the URL field truncates that address to about 100 characters, thus rendering the link of no use, regardless of whether it is preceded by either http or https.

Here is a sample, but pseudo, link to experiment with:

https://sites.google.com/site/somesiteontheweb/1910%20Gagne%20Census%20Adelle%20Head%20ACharacter99Character100CharacterCharacter101/ans/so/on/and/on

Try editing one of your own source URL's by cutting and pasting the above address into the URL Field. Then use the right arrow to get to the end of the field. If you get the same result as me, you should get to the letter 'C' that follows the section, '20ACharacter99' but no further - the rest of the address is missing, at least in my case.

Don't for get to cancel your update!

Thanks to each of you for looking into this with me.

Bill

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Les
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Hi Bill and David, as you are both entering

https://www.some_external_site.com

Just enter from the www

www.some_external_site.com

Please let me know how you get on

Regards

Les

WF
William D Flanagan
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Hi Bill and David, as you are both entering https://www.some_external_site.com Just enter from the www www.some_external_site.com Please let me know how you get on Regards Les
To David and Les,

(I'm sending the same message to each of you as i don't know if a reply to just Les or to just David or to just myself notifies any of the others.)

Thanks to your suggestions that I should experiment, I did and found a non https related issue.

Within Sources, I choose a source to edit so that I could paste in a URL to the external location. But, BUT, the URL field truncates that address to about 100 characters, thus rendering the link of no use, regardless of whether it is preceded by either http or https.

Here is a sample, but pseudo, link to experiment with:

https://sites.google.com/site/somesiteontheweb/1910%20Gagne%20Census%20Adelle%20Head%20ACharacter99Character100CharacterCharacter101/ans/so/on/and/on

Try editing one of your own source URL's by cutting and pasting the above address into the URL Field. Then use the right arrow to get to the end of the field. If you get the same result as me, you should get to the letter 'C' that follows the section, '20ACharacter99' but no further - the rest of the address is missing, at least in my case.

Don't for get to cancel your update!

Thanks to each of you for looking into this with me.

Bill

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Les
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To David and Les, (I'm sending the same message to each of you as i don't know if a reply to just Les or to just David or to just myself notifies any of the others.) Thanks to your suggestions more ...
that I should experiment, I did and found a non https related issue. Within Sources, I choose a source to edit so that I could paste in a URL to the external location. But, BUT, the URL field truncates that address to about 100 characters, thus rendering the link of no use, regardless of whether it is preceded by either http or https. Here is a sample, but pseudo, link to experiment with: https://sites.google.com/site/somesiteontheweb/1910%20Gagne%20Census%20Adelle%20Head%20ACharacter99Character100CharacterCharacter101/ans/so/on/and/on Try editing one of your own source URL's by cutting and pasting the above address into the URL Field. Then use the right arrow to get to the end of the field. If you get the same result as me, you should get to the letter 'C' that follows the section, '20ACharacter99' but no further - the rest of the address is missing, at least in my case. Don't for get to cancel your update! Thanks to each of you for looking into this with me. Bil
Hi Bill, first of all did you find my suggestion works?

Yes I know about this. Secondly there are a few places in TP that you cannot use the full URL address.

Try this. Truncate the URL with this site ( there are a few others )

http://tinyurl.com/ and use the truncated URLLet me know how you get on

All the best

Les
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WF
William D Flanagan
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Hi Bill, first of all did you find my suggestion works? Yes I know about this. Secondly there are a few places in TP that you cannot use the full URL address. Try this. Truncate the URL with this site more ...
( there are a few others ) http://tinyurl.com/ and use the truncated URLLet me know how you get on All the best Le
Hello Les,

As I indicated, your suggestion does not work, but only because Tribal Pages, within the Sources portion of the site, does two things: It truncates a long address to 100 characters. In addition, it deletes the percent sign, %, within a url. (The percent sign is part of a system to add different meaning to certain characters).

I tried for a long time to find work arounds but to no avail.

Next I tried your very good idea about converting a l-o-n-g url to a short form via tiny url.com. It works!

There are some drawbacks according to the internet but for my purposes, this method will work. Actually, I switched to the Google URL shortener, goo.gl (type it in as if it were a web address/url) as I felt it might be slightly better because it points to my external site which is a Google site.

So, thanks to you, (and David) for helping to achieve a solution.

Bill

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Les
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Hello Les, As I indicated, your suggestion does not work, but only because Tribal Pages, within the Sources portion of the site, does two things: It truncates a long address to 100 characters. more ...
In addition, it deletes the percent sign, %, within a url. (The percent sign is part of a system to add different meaning to certain characters). I tried for a long time to find work arounds but to no avail. Next I tried your very good idea about converting a l-o-n-g url to a short form via tiny url.com. It works! There are some drawbacks according to the internet but for my purposes, this method will work. Actually, I switched to the Google URL shortener, goo.gl (type it in as if it were a web address/url) as I felt it might be slightly better because it points to my external site which is a Google site. So, thanks to you, (and David) for helping to achieve a solution. Bil
Hi Bill, glad that it is solved.

Could not understand why dropping the HTTP, did not work, but must admit I did not take the long address into account,as although I was suggesting the truncating,I forgot to mention, that there is no need to do this if address is short, but just drop the HTTP.

Yes Google URL shortener is great but with so many changes with IE and Windows, they are asking you to sign in,

Once again glad it is solved

Regards

Les