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Posted on 2008-02-08 17:12 By Will (Maple Rating 4 823)
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I have just completed a new update to the site that allows me to disable the new WYSYWIG editor for specific users. Users cannot make this change themselves at the moment, an administrator must make the change for them.

If you would like the editor disabled, please use the contact form to send me a message.

This is the reason that the site had several problems this afternoon, please let me know if you see anything else that is acting incorrectly.

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Doug Meade's picture

done, but not done

Comment on 2008-02-13 11:01 from Doug Meade (Maple Rating 4 709)

I followed the directions in Will's post, and he replied that he had reset my account so I would not be using the editor. All was fine, or so I thought.

So, why am I seeing the editor as I type this?

To make matters more interesting, when preparing my previous post I was sometimes using the editor and sometimes not. After previewing, most of the time the editor was present but a few times it was not.

It sounds as though something is slightly unstable.

Looking forward to having this resolved.

Doug

After previewing this post, it was completely corrupted. My carefully entered HTML source code was interspersed with copies of the above hyperlink. Strange! And, frustrating!!

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Douglas B. Meade
Math, USC, Columbia, SC 29208  E-mail: mailto:meade@math.sc.edu       
Phone:  (803) 777-6183         URL:    http://www.math.sc.edu/~meade/
John Fredsted's picture

The same here

Comment on 2008-02-13 11:21 from John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)

I have experienced the same thing. At this very moment of writing I am looking at the new editor even though for a short period of time (yesterday, I believe) I had an editor with no buttons whatsoever.

That being said, I am certainly not enthusiastic about such an editor with no buttons at all: I assumed that turning off the new editor meant turning on the old editor where there were useful buttons for bold, italic, and code.

Doug Meade's picture

It's back, again.

Comment on 2008-02-15 12:09 from Doug Meade (Maple Rating 4 709)

Yesterday I, once again, had the old editor. Today, the new one is back.

Very frustrating.

Please reset this, again.

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Douglas B. Meade
Math, USC, Columbia, SC 29208  E-mail: mailto:meade@math.sc.edu       
Phone:  (803) 777-6183         URL:    http://www.math.sc.edu/~meade/
Will's picture

Problems and buttons

Comment on 2008-02-13 13:12 from Will (Maple Rating 4 823)

 It looks like the option to remove the editor is not being remembered, and it is being re-added when you log into your account again. I'll look into this.

It isn't possible to re-enable the buttons from the old version of the site, they don't work with the latest version of Drupal. If you wish to disable the WYSYWIG editor, you'll have to enter all of your html yourself.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft

John Fredsted's picture

No return to old editor

Comment on 2008-02-13 14:11 from John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)

So basically what you are saying is that the update of mapleprimes has made the only two now available editors less suitable for editing posts than was the old editor. That is actually quite depressing.

latest version of Drupal?

Comment on 2008-02-13 13:55 from jakubi (Maple Rating 4 899)

Do you mean 6.0? Any hope of improvement?

Will's picture

Drupal 6

Comment on 2008-02-13 14:55 from Will (Maple Rating 4 823)

Primes currently runs Drupal 5.72, Drupal 6 was just released today, so I won't be updating to that any time soon.

Drupal does not have any WYSYWIG editor built in, so the editor would not be changed in Drupal 6.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft

My question is

Comment on 2008-02-13 16:14 from jakubi (Maple Rating 4 899)

whether in Drupal 6 or later I will be able to have the older editor with the older buttons. For me, with the quirks it had, the previous situation was better than the current one.

John Fredsted's picture

I agree

Comment on 2008-02-14 03:10 from John Fredsted (Maple Rating 4 566)

Compare my posts The same here and No return to old editor above.

jay1's picture

We tried putting this on a

Comment on 2008-07-31 10:05 from jay1 (1)

We tried putting this on a petition site blog but couldn't get it to work. The owner ended up going elsewhere to get it coded and did find a working method eventually.

You may find this one a little more useful:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ajaxd-wordpress/

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