On 4/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Herber</b> <<a href="mailto:nospam@eton.ca">nospam@eton.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 2006-04-28 10:10 AM -0500, Tegan Dowling is rumored to have said:<br>>Is there something I could change, so that whenever a page is<br>>displayed in edit mode (whenever ?action=edit), then the preview is<br>>also provided ("e_preview" is also activated)? I don't think any
<br>>controls would have to change - maybe just the EditForm, somehow? Or<br>>maybe there could be code I could plug in somewhere, e.g. into config.php?<br>><br>>This would make editing a little easier and training *much* easier.
<br><br>Tegan<br><br>This is an interesting idea (worthy of a PITS entry, for sure), but I<br>would be inclined not to refer to the displayed text as a preview,<br>but as the "current page view" (or something less verbose).
<br><br>For example, you might display:<br>* edit buttons<br>* edit window<br>* current page view<br><br>This would allow newbies to see what the page looks like *now* and<br>they could also see the markup that gives the current result.
<br><br>However, this does become more complicated once they start editing,<br>because they will probably want to preview their changes before<br>committing to them. I suppose you could do a Gemini-skin-style<br>preview popup, but that gives you 3 views of the page on the screen
<br>(current, edit, preview of edit). And if they do a save and edit,<br>then you need to refresh the "current page view". My users seem to<br>have enough trouble with 2 views.<br><br>Just some rambling thoughts on the idea .... ;-)
<br><br><br>Neil Herber<br>Corporate info at <a href="http://www.eton.ca/">http://www.eton.ca/</a></blockquote><div><br>Your "This would allow newbies to see what the page looks like *now* and they could also see the markup that gives the current result." is what I'm after, here. Plus it makes it so much easier to instruct them on using "Preview", if it's already on display when they enter the edit mode. "Click the Preview button, and when the page refreshes, the preview area will reflect the work you've done in the edit box."
<br><br>I think it would probably work to keep the Preview button as it is.<br><br>In any case, this should be the admin's option.<br></div></div>