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Helpful UBB Feature
I have found the following procedure very useful. I think it would be good to have this posted in one of the FAQ's so others can learn to use it.
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It is possible to create a hyperlink that goes to any specific post in the Apolyton forums. This is useful when you want to direct people to a certain message rather than sending them to a thread with over a hundred posts.
This can be done using the standard UBB hyperlink as follows:
{url=(thread address).html#n}this post{/url}
where n is the n'th reply in the thread (the post that started the thread is #0).
When there are only a few posts, it is easy to count up to get the right n for the post you want. But this could get tedious if the desired post is in the middle of the second page of a huge thread. You can use your browser to enter a guess, and then count from that guess. So in the above example you could guess reply 70 and put
(thread address)-2.html#70
in the browser address bar. That would send you to reply 70 and you could count from there to get n for the post you want to reference.
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Sorry for the improper formatting; I obviously couldn't turn off the UBB code for the example.
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Richard Bruns (edited September 24, 2000).]</font>
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It is possible to create a hyperlink that goes to any specific post in the Apolyton forums. This is useful when you want to direct people to a certain message rather than sending them to a thread with over a hundred posts.
This can be done using the standard UBB hyperlink as follows:
{url=(thread address).html#n}this post{/url}
where n is the n'th reply in the thread (the post that started the thread is #0).
When there are only a few posts, it is easy to count up to get the right n for the post you want. But this could get tedious if the desired post is in the middle of the second page of a huge thread. You can use your browser to enter a guess, and then count from that guess. So in the above example you could guess reply 70 and put
(thread address)-2.html#70
in the browser address bar. That would send you to reply 70 and you could count from there to get n for the post you want to reference.
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Sorry for the improper formatting; I obviously couldn't turn off the UBB code for the example.
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Richard Bruns (edited September 24, 2000).]</font>
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