Forum Upgrade - New Editor Test

[Chad]

The new version of vBulletin comes with CKeditor, which is the nifty WYSIWYG editor used to enter threads and replies.

For those of you that have been begging (but especially Warren!), you now have the ability to have content autosaved. Every 60 seconds that your post is open, you'll see a yellow "Auto-Saved" note in the lower right hand corner. If for some reason your browser goes wacky or something times out, it is supposed to give you the ability to recover. If you leave without posting, when you "Create New Thread" again, it should give you an option in the bottom left of the frame to restore saved content. I don't know if this works for replies or not. (I'm still trying to get a successful test -- I see the Auto-Saved message, but can't get the "Restore Saved Content" button yet.)

A couple of other things:

• You can now paste in content from Word. Click the "Word" button above, next to "Font" and a window will pop up where you can paste from Word. Once submitted, the forum automatically converts the text. For example, bulleted text will stay bulleted.
• You can now enter tables/columns and other formatting.
• The size of the editor window is sizable. Drag the triangular icon in the lower right corner.

 

[LQJT86C]

Wow, looks awesome! Love the MSWord compatibility. One problem: Biron and I are experiencing problems editing posts. It won't even let us go into Advanced mode. Anyone else having this issue

 

[LQJT86C]

Weird. It let me edit that post, but not re-edit. It let me edit when I posted and stayed on the page. When I went back to the thread and hit "edit", it took me to the old text box (without the MS word look), and wouldn't let me submit.

 

[Chad]

I had the same problem.

 

[Biron]

I can't edit anything. New, old, sad, glad. Nadda. Now all my grammatical errors will be apparent to the WORLD!

 

[jediPREZ]

Hrm. Wasn't this why we upgraded?

 

[JLevinson]

Yeah I wasn't able to edit a post earlier, either, through the quick edit OR the "advanced edit." Granted, I'm using Chrome and was too lazy to check other browsers, so for all I know, it's my use of a wildly unsupported browser.

 

[User Poets]

Yeah editing doesn't work at all now,.

 

[Chad]

Yeah editing doesn't work at all now,.

It's my way of encouraging you to be perfect the first time.

I'll get it updated as soon as I can confirm a fix with vBulletin.

 

[jediPREZ]

It's my way of encouraging you to be perfect the first time.

I'll get it updated as soon as I can confirm a fix with vBulletin.

UPDATE?

 

[Chad]

The new editor apparently wreaks havoc with custom styles. The skin designer is going to take a look and get it fixed shortly. Looks like it's just one of the dozens of templates that needs to be fixed to correct the issue.

 

[Argyle]

I might just have to throw over TinyMCE for this. Has it been okay with special characters?

 

[Chad]

Hey there stranger! I haven't tested many special characters in it, but feel free to try it out.