4.1.12 - Preview Post suggestion

[pilotguy]

I had to do some asking around to finally find the preview post button that was added.

I was looking for an actual "Preview Post" button beside the Post Topic and Cancel buttons.  This is where the average end user is used to seeing these things and will look.  As it stands right now I would have to write a small tutorial on this button just so people would know where it is.

Might I suggest you change this to a larger labelled button next to the Submit Topic and Cancel buttons?  It would improve visibility an go from something far from obvious and intuitive to being very obvious and extremely intuitive.

Cheers.

[Simon Woods]

I don't want to see this changed back to the old style in this way. I prefer to not have multiple buttons near the 'send' option. Maybe there is a third option that also works but I definitely don't want to be forced into the old way.

[pilotguy]

Fair enough.  These boys here at IPS are smart enough to have the option for either.. OR.

The little hidden button at the top though is awful and useless.

[Martin1980]

 

[pilotguy]

Yes sir!  I had that installed and uninstalled it thinking the new update would provide the same.  It did not and I return to this awesome plugin.  

[AtariAge]

I agree, my users are not going to realize that this new icon represents "Preview Post" without being hit across the head with it.  It's so non-obvious if you are looking for a "Preview" button as most forums have.  And it should be near the "Submit Reply" button, since you'll be at the bottom of the editor window when you finish composing (especially if you are writing a longer post, and more especially if the editor window has expanded vertically with any significance).  And, in my opinion, it is related to submitting the post, since the first thing many people will want to do is preview the post before submitting.

[Nathan Explosion]

If anyone wants to do another plugin that specifically invokes the new IPS Preview via a button outside of the editor itself, then the following JS code will do it (tested against new topic and reply to topic)

<script type="text/javascript">
	function invokePreview() {
		var x = $("textarea[data-role='contentEditor']").attr("name");
		var i = CKEDITOR.instances[x];
		i.execCommand('ipsPreview');
	}
</script>

 

[pilotguy]

31 minutes ago, Martin1980 said:

 

This does not appear to be working now in 4.1.12

[Rikki]

While a button next to 'submit' makes sense for posting comments/replies, it's limited to only those situations. We needed a solution that works for all editors in the suite, whether it's a reply box, or a form field in the AdminCP, or any of the other places we use the full editor  

[AtariAge]

4 minutes ago, Rikki said:

While a button next to 'submit' makes sense for posting comments/replies, it's limited to only those situations. We needed a solution that works for all editors in the suite, whether it's a reply box, or a form field in the AdminCP, or any of the other places we use the full editor  

99.9% of the content generated on my forum is in the form of regular forum posts.  How about adding the word "Preview" as part of that preview icon in the editor?  I'd still want a separate "Preview Post" button next to "Submit Reply".