[XFA] Document/Manual/Tutorial/Article Writer [Paid] 2.8.3

[XFA]

Looks like a good add on. Playing around with the demo on your site, seems the table of content flies around the page alot (when scrolling it leaps to different parts of the page, sometiems gets stuck in the footer). Would be nice if the sides could be static a bit and not move while the data is scrollable.

The sidebar can be made so it's not floatable through style properties, but that option is not set on our demo.

The demo is also a little outdated, not running the latest version yet.

 

[ArcheXerxes]

I was to combine this with showcase to show a guide for the item I'm showcasing. is there anyway to display data created in this in a showcase tab?

Could this be done in a bbcode

 

[XFA]

No there is no bbcode.

Having it implemented in a showcase tab would need some custom code.

 

[silence]

@MtoR Another bug:

If a user updates the thread that a document autocreated and is linked to, the newsfeed entry is completely empty on /recent-activity.
Newsfeed entry in the DB:

INSERT INTO `xf_news_feed` (`news_feed_id`, `user_id`, `username`, `content_type`, `content_id`, `action`, `extra_data`) VALUES
(277565, 1, 'Test', 'thread', 39760, 'update', '');

 

[XFA]

@silence Not sure to understand.

You mean that if the document is updated because of the automatic modification when the document is changed, the newsfeed is not updated ?

 

[silence]

@silence Not sure to understand.

You mean that if the document is updated because of the automatic modification when the document is changed, the newsfeed is not updated ?

No the newsfeed item is just empty.

 

[XFA]

@silence ah ok, just to be sure how to reproduce it, I have to create a document with the automatic thread creation active and then just need to modify the document summary ?

 

[silence]

@silence ah ok, just to be sure how to reproduce it, I have to create a document with the automatic thread creation active and then just need to modify the document summary ?

Yeah that's how it seems. Or try modifying the first post on that thread.

 

[XFA]

Ok thanks I'll check out.

 

[silence]

@MtoR Another thing a user pointed out:

I noticed when I was added by another user to help modify his guide that there is a delete option and can allow you to hide paragraphs or completely delete them.

It to me looks like the powers are backwards; the creator should have delete powers and the contributors should be able to request for a deletion of a paragraph but can hide, edit, all the normal stuff.

 

[XFA]

@silence both have the same amount of power, so the suggestion would be to have them limited ?

 

[silence]

@silence both have the same amount of power, so the suggestion would be to have them limited ?

Yes that is correct

 

[XFA]

Yes that is correct

I guess that would be something I could envision.

 

[silence]

I guess that would be something I could envision.

Yeah people want to allow users to work on their guides but not destroy them haha

 

[XFA]

Yeah people want to allow users to work on their guides but not destroy them haha

While thinking at this, the users could also remove the whole content of the paragraph so result would be kinda the same...
But perhaps I could implement the history technology that come with xF.

 

[silence]

While thinking at this, the users could also remove the whole content of the paragraph so result would be kinda the same...
But perhaps I could implement the history technology that come with xF.

Yeah that would probably be easier as the code already exists

 

[marremp2]

But perhaps I could implement the history technology that come with xF.

Great idea ! I am looking for an add-on that would allow my members to write articles in a collaborative way. Adding the version history to this add-on would make it almost perfect...

 

[Digital Doctor]

Great idea ! I am looking for an add-on that would allow my members to write articles in a collaborative way. Adding the version history to this add-on would make it almost perfect...

I'd love to hear more about your need / vision.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Yeah people want to allow users to work on their guides but not destroy them haha

Maybe there could be some manual chron query that could backup the articles in case of destruction ? (For now)

 

[marremp2]

I'd love to hear more about your need / vision.

Hello !
I want to put in place on our site a process for collaborative content creation. We want to create some highly-elaborated contents (beginner user guides, encyclopedic documents) that need to put together energy and knowledge of different writers. Our contributors spend most of their time to explain again and again some basics and we really need to gather this knowledge somewhere, in a synthetic and organised presentation.

The idea is to have a tool allowing both to elaborate and publish these documents (once validated).

People involved in documents creation projects may access to work-in-progress documents ("sections" ?) for which they opted to contribute, modify parts of the documents, receive alerts for modifications made by others and see the detail of these modifications. They would need to discuss about the project in dedicated threads.

Once a project is ready to be published, it may be copied and published to public. The work-in-progress project would still exist and evolve, until a 2nd version is validated, then published (updating the first one), and so on.

I thought initially to wiki-like tools (Vaultwiki, Xencarta, etc) but it seems to me that this xfa extension is much more user-friendly and brings better features for readers as well.