Suggestions Archive

The ability to email a comment to a page would be awesome.

[Admin] Doug, thanks for the input. Emailing content into the site is actually on our to do list... don't have a schedule for you yet, but it's "in the wings". 

I'm using the Brighton Blue Left skin on our corporate intranet (powered by EditMe). I *love* the ability to show / hide the toolbar on the right. Hiding it adds valuable horizontal real estate to the page. And I find I don't need most of the menu items that often... except, of course, for "Page > Edit" which I'm clicking all the time.

 It would be nice if this one item (Edit Page) were available even when the toolbar on the right was closed. That way I could do 80% of what I want in EditMe with the toolbar closed, and only open it up when I need to add an attachment, change the site settings, etc.

[Admin] Check out www.editme.com - it has a custom XSL stylesheet that puts the "Edit" link at the bottom of each page. Open up a help desk ticket - we can help you put an Edit link elsewhere on your site. 

After looking at Atlassian, wikispaces, JotSpot, SocialText, Kwiki, Zwiki, and Perspective, I found EditMe which is perfect.  Not only is it easy to use, has an Index that actually works, has a fast obvious way to add comments, but it also has user controls and email changes! Ya'll have done a great job. Thanks.

[Admin] Glynn, thanks for your kind words. I've added your comments to our testimonials page. Let me know if that's OK. Thanks again! 

 The new TinyMCE html editor is very slow to download - for this reason I preferred the old HTMLarea.  How about an option to use the ultra-simple Wikiwyg, when that becomes more stable?

[Admin] Chris, we are certainly keeping an eye on Wikiwyg - it shows promise. Unfortunately, as you state, it's quite unstable, and using it would cause EditMe to lose more than 80% of it's editing features. We find the current editor takes about 5-10 seconds to load the first time, but after that it loads almost instantly (as it's cached). If you're seeing slow performance every time it loads, check your browser's cache settings. 

5/24/05

From David Ellsworth/dellsworth [12.222.20.76] - 2004-04-24 9:58 AM

The "remember me" feature should work to extend the session when using the editor. Currently it seems to work for the whole site except when posting from the editor after the session has timed out.

[Admin] This feature has been implemented. Thanks for the suggestion! 

[Liz] When inserting a hyperlink it would be nice to have the option to "open in new window" rather than have to edit the html for the page.

[Admin] This can now be done using the new editor. Like this!

I would like to make the background colours of the Site Menu and Tools Menu different to the main text area. If there is a way to do this in the style sheets please could you advise? (I have managed to add a different background colour to Tools Menu elements - and it looks a right dog's dinner :)

[Admin] This can now be done by editing the site's XSL layout. Use the help desk if you need help with this. We're actively developing new layouts that will be easier to customize using just the CSS Stylesheet.

Like Chris below, in the Menu I would like to hide the links to "Registered User" pages from the "public" and create "User Group" page sets - and hide menu-links to these pages from other "User Groups".

This is now possible using the new "include" tag. See this FAQ entry for details.

The only alternative seems to be to link a number of editme sites, as you have done here, but that starts to get a bit expensive.

[chris] There are a number of suggestions below about specific security authorizations for different pages. It's true that each page can have customized access for public/registered/admin, but there's no ability to have different classes of registered users.

For example for a school website, the registered finance committee members should be able to see/edit finance pages, but not the admissions committee pages, and vice a versa.

To implement, perhaps administrators could define "user groups" and on the Site Settings|Users page users could be promoted to membership in one or more groups. Each page's Security dropdown menu would then have additional listings defining group access and edit privileges.

[Admin] Heard loud and clear - User Groups and Sections are in the development plan.

Furthermore, it would be helpful if menu links would not be visible to users not permissioned to see those pages. Perhaps this could be implemented through multiple menus (as suggested below 3.1.04) which have independent visibility settings depending on user group.

[Admin] This is now possible. See this FAQ entry. 

From a question on the Questions page... A wiki-ish way to create in-page anchor links, since the editor doesn't support this. Something like [[name: SomeName]] to create an anchor and then [[#SomeName]] or [[PageName#SomeName]] to link to it.

[Admin] While it's not too wiki-ish, the new editor now supports the creation of Anchor tags. Just click the button that looks like: