Sorry I don’t know where to find the answer to this, though I am sure I have seen it somewhere. I am using huge long search urls as links in my Journal, and would like to type something appropriate over them. I don’t know html. Could someone please give me the code to do this?
If there is a fairly succinct thread or wiki somewhere, I will do my best to refer to it for future needs.
It would also be useful to know what is meant by the terms “Observation view” and
“Observation field view” to help interpret instructions eg the very useful Filter Cribsheet. I have bookmarked.
you can drop the domain part of the url (https://www.inaturalist.org)… a relative link will work no matter what domain you are on, eg for iNaturalist.nz or iNaturalist.org
Thanks Mark and bazwal. My first try worked, for now anyway, and I will incorporate these tips…and try and remember it! How do you guys keep this sort of info where you can find it - or do you remember it all?
When you say drop the domain part of the name, do you mean drop the http://www. bit too? And will these links to work for people who are not on the site at the time, but receive them in eg an email?
Have I mis-copied the code? Or perhaps the problem is the hyphens and spaces in the Project name?
Unfortuately I need to have another Project with a similar name, in order to filter observations by both the Place (RENH Trial Site 2018-2021) and also by the Field required for the “Selected” (Traditional) Project. But maybe I will have to drop “2018-21” from the
Place and Project names?
editing…trying to show you the code I used, but it appears here as a link, but non-working of course…trying again by omitting the initial " <a "
and current Survey and trial observations at
ref=“https://inaturalist.nz/projects/renh-trial-site-selected-2018-2021”>RENH Trial site - Selected 2018-2021
thanks very much jdmore EDIT- yup that did it!!! thanks again
NB I also just changed the Place and Project names to try and get rid of some of the characters, so my earlier test examples will no longer work - sorry for any inconvenience if anyone tried in the interim
Yes. Everything before the first single backslash. This tip is only for a link on iNat, because the link becomes relative, ie “from the same domain that we are already on”. If you are following the link from in an email, then you are not on any domain and so the browser won’t know where it’s relative to.
then when you follow it, you will no longer be signed in, because you will be looking at a different domain. If the link is just:
/observations/31839874
then the browser adds the domain of where you are leaving from (ie “relative to where you have come from”), which keeps you signed in no matter what domain the observation is posted on.