Wondering if you've ever considered enabling links on our Navigation Pages?

Question

Suggestion:

I've just started to do a few Free Space Projects and Links related to my ancestry, and I was looking for an easy way to access them. I adopted a few orphan profiles recently, and I didn't want to lose track of them. The most sensible thing looked like adding links at the end of my biography on my Profile Page. But as I acquire more of these, it doesn't seem to be a good match just to have them listed under my bio.

I was wondering if you've ever considered enabling links on the Navigation Page? It would enable us to get to them more directly. Failing that, it would be nice to have a dedicated niche for them, independent of the biography, on our Profile Page.

And as long as I'm discussing making things easier to use, it would also be nice on this G2G page to be able to quickly bring up our list of WikiTree ID's and Free Space name tags, just so I don't have to open up a new window to go back to them before I finish filling out this page. A pull down, perhaps?

Thanks. The G2G has been a favorite feature of mine, and all the help I've gotten inspires loyalty. I'm guessing it's the same for others as well.

Answer 1

 Thumbs up, Bob!  Nice ideas.  I have bookmarks on my browser for my free space pages, but would prefer to have them on my Nav page. I would love to be able to add links on my Nav page to my favorite external search engines: LDS, DAR, FindaGrave, and RootsWeb (the four I use daily.) (oops, forgot Google Book Search and Archive.org)

On your Watchlist, at the top of the list, there is a link to your free-space pages. It is not quite as convenient as it would be on my Nav page, but it works when I remember to use it. 

Comments

Thanks for the heads up on the Watchlist page. Oh, and maybe you can tell me how to do a link to a profile page I adopted; it doesn't have a number after it, and I tried to embed it in the text on my Free Space page with no luck. The profile doesn't have a number after it; maybe that's the trouble. When I click on what I've got, it goes to a page that says, "The action you have requested is limited to users in the group Supervisors."

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Hi Bob. What's the URL for that page?

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Kitty, How do you write the links above to open in a new tab?

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Hi Toby, I don't specify and sometimes it opens on the current tab.  If you remember to right click on a link, you can choose to open in a new tab.  Also, I think, some browsers allow you to specify how to open links.  I am using Google Chrome and will check that later as I think I saw it recently there.

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I am asking because I would like to have the exact coding that you used in the above links. When I hover over LDS (for example) my status bar says:

Open "HTTP...." in a new tab

but when I hove over Kitty Smith, it reads:

Go to "HTTP..."

And I would love to know how to do that on purpose.

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Toby, you can manually add "target="_blank" to an HTML link, if you have access to it. That's what opens a new window.

As for the difference between links inside messages vs. links to other G2G or WikiTree pages, like Kitty's profile, those would be HTML settings that we do on this side of things.

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Hi Toby, I don't do any special coding.  That is Chris' thing, as he said.  What I do is type the link title LDS and then select that text.  On another tab, I copy the URL for the LDS search page.  Cick back on the G2G message and click the little WWW link button and paste the URL into the box, & click Ok.

Now the LDS title should be an active link to the LDS URL.  I don't know how Chris set it up to open in a new tab.  Would that be because I copied the URL from a separate tab?  Something in the URL coding? Or maybe that is the way the WWW Link button works?

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I finally figured that one out myself. The page in question was for Gamel Auceps de Scriven, and I used the ID, de Scriven-2, I found between the My WikiTree and Add buttons on top. For some reason, I didn't see it there the first couple times I accessed it. Sorry.

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Toby, this may be more than you need to know, but ...

I just realized that the software here in G2G let's you customize the "target" for a link. To see it, try editing your comment and clicking the link icon. Then look for the "advanced" tab.