New Create Entries management page

[denise]

This post is to report bugs in the new Create Entries page. This is a complete rewrite of the old Update page, in order to allow for future expansion and new features such as draft posts, scheduled posts, recurring posts, expanding the range of what can be posted to your journal, and a whole host of other awesome things.

When reporting bugs, please include:

* The browser name, browser version number, and operating system you're using
* The steps you took to reproduce the problem
* Whether or not you've tested the same steps in another browser (and if so, which)
* Whether you get the same result every time you try the same steps, or if it only happens sometimes

If we can't reproduce the problem under the same browser and operating system, we may also ask you for a list of any browser extensions you have installed.

Not all features are completely implemented in the new Create Entries page yet. The biggest thing currently missing is the Rich Text editor -- the only option is the plain-old-HTML option. The design of the page is geared towards changing concepts and visual/workflow metaphors around what it means to "post an entry", too -- because of the forthcoming draft and scheduled posts, we needed to adapt some of the language and some of the ways we present concepts -- even though the draft and scheduled post functionality isn't ready to be released yet. So, if something looks awkward or like it doesn't quite fit, it's probably there to allow for something we'll be releasing in the future. (You can still mention it, though!)

Things we also consider to be bugs that should be reported, in addition to something not working right:

* if you can't figure out what to do at any step of the update process
* if you have accessibility-related problems (with your screenreader, with the tab order of the page, with the workflow, etc)
* if something about the new workflow completely breaks the way you use your journal, and you can't figure out any way to work around it (there may be a way to do what you're used to doing, but if you can't figure it out, that's something we might change or might want to document, etc)

You can enable or disable beta testing at any point.

Not yet enabled

* Rich Text editing
* Using the new Create Entries page for editing existing entries
* Using the new Create Entries page for comm admins deleting posts or performing admin overrides
* Draft posts of any type, including the in-browser saved drafts that exist right now

Known/Reported Bugs

* some difficulties crossposting, looks like possibly date-related? we're trying to figure it out.

Should be fixed

* Settings not properly saving when using the "gear" customize-this-page popup; some modules disappear
* Create Entries form being repeated after posting an entry
* Error in link to Beta Features at top of page
* Error messages when using new update page in older versions of Firefox
* Difficulties with IE (oh, IE)
* Errors with time being truncated
* inactive icons showing in the icon browser
* minsecurity of journal not reflecting properly in update form
* whole host of display glitches

Comments

[axiom_of_stripe]

How do I order panels? I can tell if this is a bug or something I'm missing.

In Chrome 15 (Windows Vista) I can click on the little gear icon and it tells me "Scroll down to arrange panels to your preference". But when I scroll down, all I find are the panels in the default order. They don't seem to be draggable or clickable anywhere.

In IE 9 (Windows Vista) clicking on the little gear icon takes me to a completely different page with the same checkbox icons but no offer to arrange panels at all. I assume that there's a security setting I need to enable here, but what is it?

[kyrielle]

Heh. I had a similar problem with the panels. I can move one *element* at a time, as I noted below, but apparently you can't actually move whole *panels*. Which is a pity. The default panel orders are well chosen, they're just in the wrong spot for me. :P

[axiom_of_stripe]

Ah-hah, that makes sense. Thanks!

Also, I suddenly see the elements as draggable, which I'm pretty sure they weren't an hour ago! Maybe something was successfully tweaked?

(Still nothing in IE, though.)

[fu]

Hm! Incidental to other things, I just pushed out a change which should style the elements when in draggable mode into distinct boxes. It doesn't solve your problem of having to drag them alll,but might make it clearer that it's specific boxes at a time, not the whole column of them.

(If not, let me know your browser and your site skin? *G*)

[kyrielle]

That does make it clearer - AND the white-space to the right of fields (and inside the box) now works to drag them. The same white-space that didn't work before.

I'd REALLY like the ability to move the groupings, though. They're GREAT. They're just in a crappy place for me, down off the screen. If I can pick them up and dump them to the right en masse, I am a much happier camper. One at a time is fiddly.

Maybe if we could just ctrl-click or shift-click to select groups and move all of them?

But yes, much clearer/more usable with that change. :)

[fu]

Chrome: there was a fairly annoying bug which was messing with reordering of panels. Try again now, though, I just pushed out changes that should make that work much better -- if all your panels have disappeared, you might need to reset them to their original settings

IE: Hmmmmm. That's not the first I've heard of IE, in particular, not liking the JS. Can you look into the error log / error console and tell me if it's choking on anything? (security setting: it should just be normal JS, if the other JS on DW works for you, that's likely not it)

[axiom_of_stripe]

Yes, I can drag and drop in Chrome now, thank you! :)

When I open the create entries page in IE 9, I get this:

[Error] SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'getElementsByTagName'
jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js,jquery.autocompletewithunknown.js,md5.js,jquery.crosspost.js,jquery.postform.js?v=1320052211, line 16 character 59007
[Warning] SEC7115: :visited and :link styles can only differ by color. Some styles were not applied to :visited.
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I don't generally use IE for browsing Dreamwidth, so I don't know what else does/doesn't work -- is there something I should check specifically? My security options are set to the IE default for medium-high.

[fu]

Oh huh that might explain why IE9 is broken, while IE7 is not....

Looking into this, i'll get back to you!

[fu]

IE9 should be fixed now! There was a problem with (of all things *g*) our jQuery version. (can you check again in IE9 if you get the chance?)

[axiom_of_stripe]

Yup, it works now in IE 9!

[fu]

Most excellent!