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Buck Perley
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Mar 15, 2012 - 9:56 am

I was wondering if there was a way to have links and URLs that are in posts in the forum to automatically open up in a new window/tab? I was told by a user that it through her off to click on a link in the middle of a post and be taken away from the site even though she hadn't finished reading the full post yet. 

 

Thanks!

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Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 15, 2012 - 10:22 am

You need to set the options you want in the forum admin > Options > Content settings. See the 'post links filtering'.

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Buck Perley
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Mar 15, 2012 - 6:26 pm

Hmmm, weird. it's already set there but for some reason it's still opening on the same page. You can see a link here: http://www.thechinastep.com/fo.....n-tickets/ and the screen shot of the settings attached

 

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Mr Papa
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Mar 15, 2012 - 7:17 pm

interesting...  looks like perhpas if the link is entered directly as text, the function that makes it clickable (ie a link) is not following the target rule in settings...

was able to duplicate in a test... so have opened up a ticket and will get it fixed in the next version...

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Buck Perley
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Mar 15, 2012 - 7:58 pm

Great, thanks!

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Mr Papa
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Mar 15, 2012 - 8:11 pm

testing the fix right now... hopefully, get 5.0.2 out this weekend to address a few minor issues like this...

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