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#1

I’ve done a bit of work on the articles section for authors. I added a WYSIWYG editor, so you’ll be able to see exactly what your article will look like.

#2

It took me a minute, but is

WYSIWYG = “What You See Is What You Get” ?

#3

Man I must be getting old…I thought it was some more Greek computer lingo!

Andre’

#4

Exactly! Its a webpage text editor that works like Microsoft Word.

#5

Okay, now I’m really lost.

#6

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#7

OK - NOW I GET IT
When you enter the first page, it’s the old entry form, not the editor. If you “submit” the article, you can then go and edit it with the neat editor that has all kinds of controls like MS Word.

So I guess it does work like you said - Thanks!

Ric - Just create a new article, give it a title and put in one line of text, then Save or Submit. Then go back and Edit the page and you will get the new editor where you can just click a button to change fonts, insert images, insert links & stuff.

Cool Bob -

Thanks

#8

Jon,

Thanks. I’ve got some outstanding questions to Bob right now. I’ll check it out in the morning.

#9

Wednesday Morning and got the article to show again. I still have trouble with the terms “Hide” and “Show”. I guess I’m thinking if you “Hide” the article nobody could see it and if you “Show” the article everybody could see it. But it seems to work the opposite way. If you “Hide” the article then you can’t update the article and if you “Show” the article then you can work on it with nobody looking at it.

So I played a little and copied what I posted about the weekend operations. I justed pasted from the edit page of posting in the forums. Pictures didn’t show. I guess I should just copy from what shows in the Forums?

#10
Jon Radder said:
OK - [b] NOW I GET IT [/b] When you enter the first page, it's the old entry form, not the editor. If you "submit" the article, you can then go and edit it with the neat editor that has all kinds of controls like MS Word.

So I guess it does work like you said - Thanks!

Ric - Just create a new article, give it a title and put in one line of text, then Save or Submit. Then go back and Edit the page and you will get the new editor where you can just click a button to change fonts, insert images, insert links & stuff.

Cool Bob -

Thanks


Hmmm…ok, lemme fix that up. I get it! Thanks for spotting this, Jon…

#11

Hi Bob and Jon,

Bob, I’ve made some updates to my Construction log in the Articles section and plan to continue this way, if okay. Don’t tell him, but Bart was a big help with some of my questions. He might be worth keeping around.

Jon, I see you’ve started the same idea pattern. I think this will work well.

#12

Yup, but it might take me 5 years to finish it :open_mouth:

Bob, one thing the new editor doesn’t seem to do right is handle paragraphs or line breaks. I placed some blank lines in my article and when I previewed the article, the line breaks didn’t show up. I had to go into the HTML view and put a
tag wherever I wanted a break.

The editor is nice, but being web based it’s a bit slow for me. Since I have HTML editors at home and enough HTML knowledge to be dangerous, I’ll probably just edit at home and paste the HTML code to the editor.

Thanks for your efforts.

Now we need a way to alert people that there are new or updated articles. I noticed on Ric’s article the date is the date he originally created the article, not the most recent edit date.

JR