[pmwiki-users] New user's problem: Edit -> Preview -> Edit removes changes

Pico pmwiki at ben-amotz.com
Fri Apr 7 07:47:38 CDT 2006


christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> I was just showing someone pmwiki, and while explaining the preview 
> function the first thing that happened was the following sequence:
>
> * Click edit link
> * Make some changes
> * Click preview button
> * Look at preview (slightly annoyed it was below the edit form)
> * Click on edit link to go back to editing... (using the edit link IIRC)
>
> I've seen this happen repeatedly now with new users... So I think 
> something could be improved in the GUI here. How about the following idea:
>
> What if the text of the edit link was changed when a page is being
> previewed? The text could for instance be changed from 'edit' to 'edit
> (discard changes)'. This text isn't really good, but I hope the idea comes 
> across...
>
> thoughts?
> /Christian
>
>   
FYI,

For anyone thinking about this, you may want to note, in case you missed 
it, that Pm recently added an ($Action) PageVariable in version 2.1.4/5.

See

http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ChangeLog
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00696
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageVariables

Pico





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