Adding External URL link to Item Desription

[ShannonPugh]

How can I add an external link to a Web Maps item description? Every time I try to do it using the "Create Link" button, it tacks the organization's arcgis.com home page url onto the beginning of it. Frustrating, to say the least.


Update: My coworker found the solution. You must put http:// at the beginning of your url. Duh!

[RupertEssinger · Accepted solution]

You can also make your link generic by replacing your organization's domain name with just www.arcgis.com. So for example the entry for this web mapping application item representing a story map app is:

http://story.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=28e6e70ad0d34d20a9e8bda7391e1188

but to make that link generic I can change the domain to be just

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=28e6e70ad0d34d20a9e8bda7391e1188