Possible fault in templates for URLs in RM8

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If I want a default URL in a footnote or bibliography e.g. https://www.findmypast.co.uk, to get it displayed I have to put https:///www.findmypast.co.uk in the template - i.e. 3 slashes instead of 2.
If I put https://www.findmypast.co.uk in the template, it displays as https:/www.findmypast.co.uk - i.e. 1 slash instead of 2.

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Hi @WMO this is not a fault. From the RootsMagic wiki:
If you ever want to write an actual <, >, /, [, or ] in your sentence, you must precede it by a “/”. This tells RootsMagic that to print the following character and to not treat it as a switch or a field. For example:
[Person] /[This is in brackets/]. would print: John Doe [This is in brackets].

This is because <, >, /, [, and ] are special characters in the source template, that tell the program to do something special. In particular, the ‘/’ is a formatting character.

So in the case of https:// the first ‘/’ is the escape character telling RM to print the second ‘/’, therefore you only see https:/. So it is correct to get https:// that you would need to write https:/// in the source template.

For more information see the RM wiki here Escape Characters

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Hi, This subject is partially a problem I have, RM defaults the URL for Find My Past to (.com) the American site, instead of (.co.uk), except when logging out I am being told I should be using the United Kingdom site, From what has been advised is there a way of applying something similar to change the URL.

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For Ancestry, RM provides the ability to set which Ancestry site is accessed. RM8 clearly needs similar options, where appropriate, for the other webhint sites. I suggest you feed this back to RM but also create a separate topic here where the subject is more appropriate.

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Thank you JP1, I have just attempted to send my query and explanation to the Development Team.

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Actually I think you have to do http://// (4 forward slashes) because you have to escape both of them /'s that you want to actually print.

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Thank you, Chris, for directing me to this part of the wiki which I had not seen.
Kfunk - In theory, yes, but in practice, no - I type in /// to get //. I don’t know why - but as long as I have something that works, then I’ll go along with it.
Thanks again, WMO