new create entries beta

[denise]

We had the old "new JS on journals" beta reporting entry as the topmost entry in this comm, which was causing some confusion! So, a fresh post for people to report problems they're having with the new Create Entries beta.

Things not yet implemented:

* a WYSIWYG/rich text editor to allow people to post formatted entries

* the ability to save draft entries, both so you can deliberately postpone entries for posting later and so that an unexpected browser crash or problem during the posting process won't cause you to lose work

* admin editing of community entries

* the "don't autoformat" checkbox (we can't quite figure out which pane to stick it in!)

Things that will be documented once it comes out of beta, but some people have missed:

* if you don't like the placement of panels or don't want to see certain panels, you can customize the placement and which panels appear by using the " Settings" link in the main toolbar at the beginning of the form.

If you have anything else to report, please let us know here!

Comments

[zvi]

read the february news post and went looking for the post as mod hat flag. It works a little differently than described 9 months ago (not surprising), but the community moderation specific widgets are not movable in the layout, which is weird because everything else is, and they are beneath all of my other post options (this means I have to scroll 2 and a half screens below the post button to get to them). I realize that other people's layouts will be somewhat different, but I think that a sometimes option that isn't really visible near the main thing one is doing (writing a post) is an option one often won't realize is there.

Probably you are limited in the amount you want to mess with adding a thing to people's create entries page, when 80% of the appeal is that one has customized it, so the two obvious solutions that leap out at me are to put the community admin stuff above the entry or to have a link to the community admin stuff appear somewhere in proximity to the post button. Not sure of the positioning tradeoffs, but just a thought.