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It's funny - I would never came up with such an idea but I already had two customers who asked pretty much the same.
What they requests is a feature I call "auto edit". (Better naming might be useful)
When you login in to Concrete5 and browse to a page you are already editing the site. No need to push "Edit Page".
When you logout, Concrete5 asks you something like: "You have changed the following pages: xyz - want to save them?"
No need to push publish everytime.
I never cared about that, maybe I'm faster with clicking but for small pages where you don't need to approve things, such a feature might be nice to reduce the amount of clicks that are necessary to update a page content.
I know that this is a feature that isn't too easy to implement but customers are actually requesting it..
Just a post to "Chit-Chat" ;-) Wonder what you guys think.
What they requests is a feature I call "auto edit". (Better naming might be useful)
When you login in to Concrete5 and browse to a page you are already editing the site. No need to push "Edit Page".
When you logout, Concrete5 asks you something like: "You have changed the following pages: xyz - want to save them?"
No need to push publish everytime.
I never cared about that, maybe I'm faster with clicking but for small pages where you don't need to approve things, such a feature might be nice to reduce the amount of clicks that are necessary to update a page content.
I know that this is a feature that isn't too easy to implement but customers are actually requesting it..
Just a post to "Chit-Chat" ;-) Wonder what you guys think.
I know that not everyone agrees with you.. Don't think about the sites with 1000 pages. A site with 10 pages and 1 person who edits the content.
- Keeping track what changed
I tried to explain a few customers what page version is good for. No one cared, one even said: When I want to "go back", I just enter the old content again. I would say way too complicated but it's the way it works in his world.
Quite a few people don't care about what changed.
- Close the browser
You can hook into that, that's not a problem. And by the way - what happens when you close the browser when you're in edit mode at the moment?
- What happens when a browser stays open forever
Add a timeout and show a warning or simply create an unapproved page which you already do! What happens right now when I don't close the browser while I'm in edit mode? Nothing would change, it's the same!
- Preview
Same thing again, all customers I talked to don't need that button
- Publish
You would have a button "publish all" which appears when you close the browser or when you push the button yourself. No need for publish.
As I said I wouldn't use such a feature for huge sites but for simple things it would reduce a lot of clicks and customers care about that.
- Keeping track what changed
I tried to explain a few customers what page version is good for. No one cared, one even said: When I want to "go back", I just enter the old content again. I would say way too complicated but it's the way it works in his world.
Quite a few people don't care about what changed.
- Close the browser
You can hook into that, that's not a problem. And by the way - what happens when you close the browser when you're in edit mode at the moment?
- What happens when a browser stays open forever
Add a timeout and show a warning or simply create an unapproved page which you already do! What happens right now when I don't close the browser while I'm in edit mode? Nothing would change, it's the same!
- Preview
Same thing again, all customers I talked to don't need that button
- Publish
You would have a button "publish all" which appears when you close the browser or when you push the button yourself. No need for publish.
As I said I wouldn't use such a feature for huge sites but for simple things it would reduce a lot of clicks and customers care about that.
as i'm sure everyone here would agree...
this is a disaster waiting to happen.
way complicated in terms of keeping track whats changed, super easy to lose changes because someone just closed their browser... what happens when the browser just stays open for ever... what about preview vs. publish... Ahh!
in your shoes, I'd take that as flattery that the system is so simple already. Tell em "wow, I'm psyched you're that comfortable editing your site after just an hour of training, lets roll with it this way for a year and see if you still want that feature in 6 months."