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Linking to specific posts

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BayJay · 05/06/2012 13:57

Sometimes in Talk I want to add a link to a specific post, often in another thread. I've worked out a way to do it but its a bit fiddly (see below). Anyone know an easier way? Is this something that other people would like to see made easier? In the same way that every post has a 'Report' link on it, I'd like to see a 'get link to this post' option.

The format of the link needs to be like this:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/TOPIC/aTHREADNUMBER-THREAD-NAME#POSTNUMBER

The bits in capitals are the bits you need to replace. You can get everything before the # by copying-and-pasting from the address box at the top of your browser (but notice the 'a' before the THREADNUMBER as you will probably need to add that in).

To get the unique POSTNUMBER you can right-click on the 'Report' link at the top of the relevant post, choose 'Copy Shortcut', and paste it into a text editor. The number at the end of the pasted shortcut is the POSTNUMBER you need.

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BayJay · 05/06/2012 14:00

So, for example, if I wanted to link back to my previous post I would use:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/a1488023-Linking-to-specific-posts#32171848

... just like this.

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