The Book o'Wiki's
Submitted by javelin on Sat, 2007-08-04 10:04.
This book is really more like a loose-leaf folder. It holds whatever WikiPages c.p.o members have created; these pages may be edited by any member and usually constitute community projects.
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Please let this catch on...
This rocks.
pages
for some reason, it appears that editing one of these wiki pages tends to remove it from the book... and each edit requires re-adding it to the book heirarchy.
Yeah
I noticed that too - I haven't figured out how to fix it yet, though.
From what I can see
From what I can see as a user with book editing privileges (which I now realize not all members have), this is what I would suggest...
Load a page. DO NOT EDIT. Toggle to the 'outline' tab (where the book page info is stored). Notice the book page info is correct at this point.
view page source; get info for 'submit' (or whatever the button is labeled. 'add to heirarchy' or something?)
toggle over to the 'edit' tab...
Here's the tricky part...
(I do not think the 'preview' button will tamper with the book settings (outline tab), but you should probably run a test here to be sure before implementing the following suggestion)
Trace the submit button on the 'edit' tab page... make sure it is NOT also submitting book heirarchy information at this point (i.e., logically, it shouldn't be tampering with that at all).
If you discover that the edit page IS also updating book state, you need to make sure that it has also LOADED the book state in the background (un-displayed variables containing the correct info).
If it is NOT submitting book info, Then perhaps it should be (per the immediately preceding paragraph's stipulation).
I realize this is drupal and not a home-made website (if it were home-made, this would be the bug you'd track). So, it may not be as simple as what I just described, but it does appear to be the logical course of events for a multi-tab page. I hope this was helpful.
Menu Sidebar
When you open this book, you get a new menu on the left sidebar.
On the good side, I like it (in fact, if this becomes popular/common, I think it'd be good as a permanent side-bar menu addition).
However,...
On the bad side, the left-side is getting REALLY LENGTHY.
So, I humbly suggest the following as an interim balance solution.
When actively reading some item/thread/page, people usually aren't interested in the poll (top right sidebar). So, since this 'book o wikis' menu is only open while you have the book open, how about placing it 'top right' ... where it will also be more visible and useful to navigating the book.
Good idea
I'll make it so.