Personal nodelet changes

I used to have a "My posts" link in my personal nodelet that I got from someone's home node (I've forgotten who it was, and I can't seem to find it again, but thank-you to my forgotten benefactor). It used to use the Perl Monks User Search page by giving it arguments of my handle and a search order. The resulting link used to look like this, basically (the real one had the host name):

<a href="/index.pl?node_id=6364&usersearch=VSarkiss&orderby=createtime
+%20DESC">
My posts</a>
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Sometime last week the link broke, and started sending me to the "can't-find-that-would-you-like-to-try-cpan" page. As a matter of fact, a link like that still works, so if you want to see my posts you can click here. My conclusion is that user search hasn't changed, but personal nodelet has....

So far my attempts to recreate the link in personal nodelet have been futile. I tried a square-brackets link like Perl Monks User Search or with an id:// tag, but couldn't seem to get the arguments in there. Then I tried a plain "<a href" anchor tag, which also didn't work, but had a very strange result. It showed up in personal nodelet, but wrapped in another anchor tag whose href was an html-escaped version of the tag. That is, the result in personal nodelet looked like this(broken out for clarity):

<a href="%3ca%20href=%22/index.pl...%22%3e">
    <a href="/index.pl...">
        My posts
    </a>
</a>
[download]

Are nested anchor tags legal html?? Both browsers I tried (Konqueror and IE5) wanted to follow the outermost href and sent me to the "search" page....

At any rate, here's my question (finally): What changed in personal nodelet? More to the point, how do I set up a link like my dearly departed "My posts"?

TIA

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Re: Personal nodelet changes by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 16, 2001 at 22:05 UTC
I'll venture a guess..... someone sent you over to new user settings right? perhaps to change your signature? Anyway, there are two different ways to tinker with your user settings: user settings and new user settings (though the 'new' one is actually much older). Unfortunately, the edit-my-sig box disappeared from user settings a while back, so people have been going to the older new user settings page to modify there sig. By some strange quirk, new user settings tends to munge your personal nodelette. So, what advice do I have for you... I'm not sure, and I'm too timid to go mucking around with my nodelet to find out. You might try tinkering around with the forms on both user settings pages, perhaps one of them will work for you. -Blake	[reply]
Re: Re: Personal nodelet changes by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Oct 16, 2001 at 23:25 UTC
Actually, I hadn't changed my user settings in a long time, probably a couple of months (last change was when the green theme became available). But I did try new user settings and got the same results. Well, maybe slightly different, but still didn't do what I wanted. Beware, though: since visiting new user settings, my approval nodelet is gone! Maybe all that futzing around got me demoted....	[reply]
Re: Personal nodelet changes by Hofmator (Curate) on Oct 17, 2001 at 16:42 UTC
Well, I just tried that and for me it worked perfectly (once I found the new 'Modify Personal Nodelet' checkbox :). I used the following HTML `<a href="/index.pl?node_id=6364&usersearch=Hofmator&orderby=createtime DESC">My posts</a>` -- Hofmator	[reply] [d/l]