How can I link specific answers?

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  I'm going to guess that instead of linking a thread, you want to link to one specify reply in the thread. If so, then I don't believe that can be done (now). However, there might be a way to find the reply url in the html (I haven't tried).

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  • Proposed as answer by ZigZag3143x Saturday, November 23, 2013 6:54 PM

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  Valtih

  It is not currently available but is on the list for the next major update in both forums.  Currently you can manually get the last post, but not a specific post.

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  Saturday, November 23, 2013 6:54 PM

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  Am 23.11.2013 schrieb valtih1978:

  It seems that Technet forums suffers the same problem and the wokaround found there does not work here. I cannot hyperlink a specific answer.

  With the NNTP-Bridge and a Newsreader it is possible to get a URL from
  one Posting.

  See:
  http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/thread/0d99e5b1-d272-4453-8446-d724d6d86868#342a04cf-271b-4fe6-ac92-0eaff90690b2
  http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/thread/0d99e5b1-d272-4453-8446-d724d6d86868#205d8b50-4181-4657-9600-7159b85f99e4

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  Saturday, November 23, 2013 7:05 PM

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  Hi,

  As Winfried pointed out, it is possible to link directly to a specific post. The easiest method when using the web interface is to look through the activity list (either yours or anyone else's) to find the post in question. As an example, this link below directly points at Richard's post:

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0d99e5b1-d272-4453-8446-d724d6d86868/how-can-i-link-specific-answers?forum=reportabug#205d8b50-4181-4657-9600-7159b85f99e4

  The key here is including the message ID in the URL.

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  • Edited by Mike Laughlin Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:11 PM
  • Proposed as answer by Richard MuellerMVP Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:44 PM

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  Am 24.11.2013 schrieb Mаx Shillby:

  Then it'll appear in your IE bookmarks.  You can click it while viewing any msdn/TechNet thread to reveal the message links.  Here's how this page looks after clicking it: _screenshot_ <http://smc3ta.dm2302.livefilestore.com/y2pL-6YeolvC6aJX6UZ4UKEWSQAAB1GqaGzpUjmmgg_9eLQkD-qfZ2fVYgm6q05eyVdFrNk5wARsnYDyiOtwUtW8Jx_AOF-EEBV7rZE5RhTlzE/MSforums-links66.png>
  Tip.  You can triple-click the link you want to copy.

  Cool, thanks for posting. ;)

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  Here's my test of the Answers mode.  Even more compact than all current suggestions.  Good stuff.

  http://answers.microsoft.com/message/bcb8bbbd-6331-4830-a244-7c7db5b67f7d

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  Looks like we need a protocol prefix to make it an automatic link, otherwise use Ctrl-k.

  Latest try:  copying to Notepad (to strip to string), adding protocol prefix and then paste...

  Do we need a user manual for this?  <eg>
  

  
  

  • Edited by Robert Aldwinckle on forums Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:31 PM Make link. Rev 5.

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  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/0d99e5b1-d272-4453-8446-d724d6d86868/how-can-i-link-specific-answers#454d2474-32bd-4315-8c8e-823e5ccd1779

  
  
  
  

  show-MSforum-links.url

  
  

  Testing:

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/0d99e5b1-d272-4453-8446-d724d6d86868/how-can-i-link-specific-answers#454d2474-32bd-4315-8c8e-823e5ccd1779]

  http://answers.microsoft.com/message/a91fc377-bee4-4667-8445-746ebd140022

  Procedure:  triple click, right-click Copy, Ctrl-v in here.  Still see same problem: anchor fragment for message is relative, so links to this thread.

  I'm sure I could fix this again using Notepad, if that is what is intended.

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  Ok.  I see that the trailing anchors don't have Href and the first one is correct.  It works but is confusing.   I would probably still use Notepad to simplify the HTML.
  

  • Edited by Robert Aldwinckle on forums Monday, November 25, 2013 3:48 PM Revised assessment

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  <snip>
  

  Testing:

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  Ok.  I see that the trailing anchors don't have Href and the first one is correct.  It works but is confusing.   I would probably still use Notepad to simplify the HTML.
  

  The text in this post is overflowing the page boundaries when viewed in Firefox and Chrome. Looks just fine in IE10.

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  The first scriptlet allows me to triple-click, right-click Copy, and then right-click, Go to copied address in here. (E.g. as a replacement of the RSS feed procedure.)  This one only allows that in Answers.  So, I guess we need to use the old one here and the new one there?

  In any case, I should mention I think this is a great improvement on the RSS method.  For one thing I expect it will fix the problem of trying to refer to a message in Answers which was older than 40 posts ago?   ; )

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  Ok, I could not understand what is all that manipulation with saving your url. But, I see now that you just right-click on the post and select "inspect the Element" in Firefox. Every post is started with the list item like

  <li id="d67e5390-dda8-4902-bec7-733ef8a69f68" class="message">

  You append the #identifier to the current question url and voila, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/0d99e5b1-d272-4453-8446-d724d6d86868/how-can-i-link-specific-answers?forum=reportabug#d67e5390-dda8-4902-bec7-733ef8a69f68 is the reply url!
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

  • Marked as answer by valtih1978 Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:58 PM
  • Edited by valtih1978 Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:00 PM

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