I need everyone's input, please. I've worked with Plum in production now with hundreds of content items, and the one thing that irked me the most was its inability to preview content items in the actual display templates then instantly click back to the editor to tweak changes.
So we're going to implement a content item preview feature in the Plum CMS. The mechanism I think we should use is this: 1) We place a "Preview content item on save" checkbox below the existing CMS rollover buttons under the WYSIWYG editor. The setting of this checkbox is saved to your cookie so you don't have to keep resetting it. 2) If the checkbox is selected, Plum displays a preview of the content item in a separate window using the targeted display template, regardless of the item's status or schedule for display or the roles of the author (as long as he is at least a Contributor). 3) If the content item is okay, the user just clicks the close box in the browser window. If the content item needs work, the user clicks the close box in the browser window and then continues editing the item in the WYSIWYG editor, saves again, and the preview window displays again. This sounds straightforward, but what if the user clicks the Save and Go Back To List button instead of the Save and Continue Editing button? Should we disable the Save and Go Back To List button if the Preview checkbox is checked, or would that confuse people? I don't want to display a control like the pulsing pencil in the display template because it pushes other content down, and I want a true preview of the content item. Any suggestions? Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive Master-level training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
