Link to anchor question

Good afternoon all,
In my project, I'm trying to link to an anchored location on an external webpage, in this form,
"http://www.website.com/page#anchor"
Doesnt seem to be working. A quick search returns this, "Text Anchor and Shared Destination hyperlinks are not supported."
Am I interpreting this correctly -- I can't link out from my folio to an anchor on an external page? Or am I doing something wrong?
thanks,
dw

Solved. User-error.
The link as used works fine. I was using a shortened URL which was losing the #anchor when it redirected.

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