Hello All,

Just a reminder!

Try Dive  – Saturday 20th March 1.00pm- £27.50

http://www.glug.co.uk/trydive

We are continuing the very successful try dive days, if you are unsure about scuba, come along and have your mind changed! ;)

Please come along and support the new divers! If you can already dive, come along and try out new kit, or have a swim! ;)

Thanks

Ian.

This post is aimed at covering a couple of points surrounding the new trips system.

For those who remember how the old Events system worked, there’s been something of a change in the way trips are linked with posts. Previously we had a chicken and egg scenario… which comes first, the post about the trip or the trip and then how to tie the two together when one doesn’t exist at the time you create the other!

The other difficulty… which of the 3 or 4 posts about a trip gets linked to the trip?

Well, no more. From now on, the trip comes first. If you are organising a trip please add your trip to the system first. Once this has been done, your trip will list in a new control on the edit post screen called ‘Trips Linker’. This allows you to insert a link to your trip anywhere within your post.

When you select your trip from the list, the control appends the link to the end of the post but you can copy and paste this anywhere within your post, more than once if you so desire.

The links become full hyperlinks when your post is viewed so don’t worry that they look a bit odd (something like ‘[GLUGEventnn]‘) while you are editing.

These links will alter their behaviour automatically as your trip is updated over time so they sort themselves out. The realy party piece is however the fact that the trip can automatically find all the posts relating to it without any additional work. This means that if you post several times about your trip in the months leading up to it, its easy to find all of them – especially helpful if key details change and people need to find the latest post.

This new feature also puts an end to trip organisers having to add links to their posts in the trip descriptions – the trip will do that for you!

Would you like to see it in action? Oh, go on then… here’s the link to the Madeira trip:

As always, if you have any questions or queries just drop me a line.

Regards

Mark
(Webmaster)