Hyperlinks / Text Tab

This option affects URL in text fields such as Notes, that appear in Family Historian created HTML pages, and URL added in Wizard Step 8: Final Details via the Advanced button. It also converts special placeholder text as described below.

It does NOT affect the hyperlinks create by Family Historian to navigate around the Individual and Family featured pages.

Select the Open URL target pages method from the dropdown list.

• The default Family Historian method is In same Page frame as the current browser page.
• The alternative is to open In new Tab or Window, which is officially deprecated on the Internet, so the DOCTYPE for XHTML is altered from Strict to Transitional.

Select how to Abbreviate long URL from the dropdown list, to curtail the display of long URL without affecting the target URL.

The placeholder text formats are:

• {{FILE:NAME}} and {{FILE:PATH}} which convert to the current HTML file name or full path.
• {{DATE:QQQ}} which gives today’s date, where QQQ is a Family Historian Date Qualifier such as COMPACT or LONG.

Use the Convert all URL ... to active Hyperlinks and alter special Hypertext button to perform the changes.

Currently only user www. and http: and https: and ftp: and mailto: protocol scheme URL are converted to hyperlinks.

www. & http: are included as Family Historian misses any in "quotes" or <chevrons> despite being recommended formats.

Even user www. and http: hyperlinks created by Family Historian will have their method of opening changed.

In addition, if a user URL in any text field is embedded in an HTML Anchor Tag then it will be appropriately converted.
e.g.

• <a href="http://www.domain.com">Domain</a> appears as Domain but links to http://www.domain.com

• <a href="mailto:fred@domain.com">Mail Fred</a> appears as Mail Fred but opens an E-mail client with its To address set to fred@domain.com

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