[Pro] Freeway 6 Compatible Actions

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Other than going through the entire Actions Forge and looking for a “6” next to an action, is there a list or something somewhere that shows which actions are update or compatible?

I see something like Crowbar does not have a “6” next to it. Can we assume it works in v6 or is there going to be a v6 compatible release?

Thanks.

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Honestly, I got several problems with CrowBar in 6 latest (which again honestly sucks, cause it’s one of my most important action - and one of the few I use).

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If you list all Actions: http://actionsforge.com/actions you will see a 6 next to each Action that has been marked as compatible with Freeway Pro 6. Further, if you look at the 20 latest updates: http://actionsforge.com/actions/latest you will see that ALL of those have.

The 6 means that the developer has tested it and assures you that it works as designed in 6. There’s no way to validate that an Action will work or not without this step; nothing automatic that the Forge can do to vet an Action for 6-worthiness.

But you can help! If you have a problem using any Action in 6 (or any version, really), use the comment form at the bottom of the Action’s page in the Forge to send the developer a note. Be sure to follow the usual rules for bug reporting:

  1. List the steps you took to create the document, no matter how basic they may seem. (New document, HTML5, External Stylesheets, no template…)
  2. List the steps you took to expose the error (and take a moment to try to repeat these in a new, blank document before you submit a bug – so many problems can be ephemeral and never repeat except in one broken document) up to the point where the error occurred. For example:
    • New blank page
    • Apply XYZ Action
    • Set the frobber to arthropod
    • Publish – Alert dialog: “Your coat is too dark for publishing to continue”
  3. Describe the outcome that you expected to happen instead.

By doing this, you can be sure that the developer knows about every edge case that they may have never seen themselves.

Walter

On Oct 22, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Robert B wrote:

Other than going through the entire Actions Forge and looking for a “6” next to an action, is there a list or something somewhere that shows which actions are update or compatible?

I see something like Crowbar does not have a “6” next to it. Can we assume it works in v6 or is there going to be a v6 compatible release?

Thanks.

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I don’t see a description for Crowbar. What exactly does it do? The brief line about it isn’t very specific.

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Crowbar is an Action that does exactly what a Markup Item does, but allows you greater control over the output code. (If you read this page, it describes it in a bit more detail: http://www.actionsforge.com/actions/view/13-crowbar-inline)

Normally, when you use a Markup Item inline (within a run of text), Freeway treats it like any other character of text, and wraps it with whatever text-level container tag is currently in use. Sometimes, that’s precisely what you want. Imagine this use-case:

<p>Today is [markup item: <?= date('l',time()) ?>].</p>

(that little blob of code prints out the day name in English).

That would make perfect sense: you want your code’s output to be combined with the rest of the text in the same paragraph. But let’s say you have a more ambitious piece of code, which outputs the recent bids on an auction item, and does so within a table. Even if you put a Markup Item all by itself alone on a line in an HTML box, Freeway will still wrap that in a

tag (or

  • , if you’re currently in a list). This makes sense, because Freeway can’t know what your code might output – it can’t execute the code and figure it out, either. So you would end up with this invalid mess:

    <p><table> ... </table></p>

    In addition to failing a syntax checker, it will also behave unpredictably layout-wise in different browsers, as they can choose their own way to auto-correct it.

    So Crowbar adds the check for “am I all alone in this line?” to its output process, and if it detects that there’s nothing on either side of it within its parent container, it will erase the parent container. So your code would come out like this instead:

    <table> ... </table>

    Which is what you want.

    In addition to this, it allows you to move your output code outside of the container tag. If you had code that needed to be set outside of a P tag, either at the beginning or the end, you would simply place it in a Crowbar inserted as either the very first or the very last character of that paragraph. The resulting code would look like this:

    <your code here><p> ... </p>

    or

    <p> ... </p><your code here>

    Hope this helps,

    Walter

    On Nov 2, 2013, at 8:48 AM, LauraB wrote:

    I don’t see a description for Crowbar. What exactly does it do? The brief line about it isn’t very specific.

    Thanks.

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    Walter, that does help. But meanwhile, what do I need to do to be notified when someone has added to a thread for which I’ve checked the “ping me” box? It used to work, but abruptly stopped months and months ago. I don’t know when someone replies to a thread I’ve started without going to the forum and looking for it. Should I start a new account or something? Very frustrating. Haven’t changed a thing in all the years I’ve been using this message board.

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    Laura, I’ve set my account to notify me by email - in other words, I almost
    never visit the forum and can see what everyone is gabbing about in my
    email inbox.

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    Ernie Simpson

    On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:59 PM, LauraB email@hidden wrote:

    Walter, that does help. But meanwhile, what do I need to do to be notified
    when someone has added to a thread for which I’ve checked the “ping me”
    box? It used to work, but abruptly stopped months and months ago. I don’t
    know when someone replies to a thread I’ve started without going to the
    forum and looking for it. Should I start a new account or something? Very
    frustrating. Haven’t changed a thing in all the years I’ve been using this
    message board.

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