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zip222
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Sep 27, 2006, 8:52 AM

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Link to external URLs? Can't Post
I just recently finished setting up a site. The news on this site is not actually their own news, instead they are linking to articles on other sites. I was wondering if there is a way to link directly to the external sites from the index page, rather than making the user click down to an article page first.

Here is the site:
http://www.aboutpgh.com/news/


ChetW
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Sep 27, 2006, 1:06 PM

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Re: [jdancisin] Link to external URLs? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi,

Thanks for the post!

You could enter a link in the summary field similar to the what you are doing in the "content" section. This would then give you the News title, summary and a "Read Full Article" link in the summary. :)

Does this sound like something that may work for you? If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to ask!
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zip222
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Sep 27, 2006, 1:21 PM

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Re: [ChetW] Link to external URLs? [In reply to] Can't Post
Not exactly, but it has led me to this idea..

Use the Summary field to gather the URL for the article, then place the &summary$ placeholder inside of the href. Then I could use the Content field to gather the article source.

my template would look something like this...


<h3><a href="$summary$">&name$</a></h3>
$date$
Source: $content$