We tell users to put a full URL including the https:// or https:// into the Website field for those places they want a web link for. But if they don't do that, or forget to, would it be possible to automatically append http:// to the value they have to make it more robust. Currently if the Website field value for a place is,say, bar7dc.com without the http:// then in the Details popup, the Website link resolves to http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/bar7dc.com which fails. I see this quite a lot even in Shortlists. Most authors aren't going to test all their links and shouldn't have to. It would be cool if the web address values that don't start with the string "http" or "http" get http:// prepended to them so that they don't fail. So the Website field value "bar7dc.com" would get resolved as http://bar7dc.com
We tell users to put a full URL including the https:// or https:// into the Website field for those places they want a web link for. But if they don't do that, or forget to, would it be possible to automatically append http:// to the value they have to make it more robust. Currently if the Website field value for a place is,say, bar7dc.com without the http:// then in the Details popup, the Website link resolves to http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/bar7dc.com which fails. I see this quite a lot even in Shortlists. Most authors aren't going to test all their links and shouldn't have to. It would be cool if the web address values that don't start with the string "http" or "http" get http:// prepended to them so that they don't fail. So the Website field value "bar7dc.com" would get resolved as http://bar7dc.com