Perhaps you need to do a rake radiant:extensions:update_all?

This happens automatically when you install extensions via ./script/ extension install extension_name, but if you installed them by just copying the files in, you may have missed updating the instance with images, javascripts, and stylesheets.

Good luck!

On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:

 Hi!

I installed your extension along with the other extensions that you made + page_attachments. I ran rake migrate:db:extensions and everything seemed to go fine... I also saw them show up under Extensions in Radiant. However, no toolbar ever showed up for me, and below the content field I can see the green plus and "Attachments (0)", but nothing happeneds when i click the plus-symbol.

What did I do wrong, or miss?

 cheers, Simon


On Nov 20, 2008, at 15:50 , Jason Garber wrote:

I'm catching up to this interesting thread a couple days late, but I can't believe no one's mentioned my textile_editor extension yet! I'm hurt! (jk!) It would have helped if I'd have announced it to the list when I released it in September, huh? :-)

[ANN] radiant-textile_editor-extension makes Radiant really easy to use for non-technical content editors!

We have a lot (50-ish?) of technology-impared people working on our university website. We haven't rolled the CMS out to all of them yet but so far in my testing I've found that the Textile editor toolbar helps them a bunch. It seems silly because pushing the H1 button inserts h1. and pressing B adds asterisks, but it works because it overcomes their fear and uncertainty about Textile. They pretty quickly get to the point where it's faster to just type h3. than to click the button, but for getting over the initial hump of staring at a blank textbox, it's a huge psychological boost!

The part of the toolbar I find myself using all the time is the link and image buttons. The way I designed it, not only can you add Textile links and images, but also enkoded email links, attached images, and attached files.

Speaking of attachments, the concept is genius for file management. Buckets and asset libraries and all that are too confusing for my users (I tried paperclipped for a while), but they're used to attaching files in webmail, so the page_attachments extension works out great. I use the page_attachments_xsendfile extension to make the attached file available at a friendly URL (the page's URL + filename). That seems to match people's expectations better. You just tell them they can use an attachment on that page or any page under it and they get it.

I'm a strong believer in the non-technical user being able to see what's going on. Even if they can't write <r:children:each> tags, when they encounter them they'll know what's going on and are less likely to mess up Radius or HTML tags than if they're hidden behind a WYSIWYG editor. Training up front is really the key—and preparing their expectations. So you say, "Textile is going to make your life a whole lot easier. Here are a few things it does and here's a toolbar in case you forget. HTML tags [Radius tags in reality] are mostly for the web team. You're not expected to know how to use them, but I'm glad to show you a few so you know what they do."

If you're using Textile, make sure you're using version >= 4.0. A lot of the hate on RedCloth was rooted in how buggy it was for a few years. You'll need the redcloth4 extension to make it work in Radiant 0.9.6.

Jason

On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Chris Parrish wrote:

1. I think the textareas need to come with a toolbar above them (page parts, snippets, layouts). These toolbars would be filter specific.

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