I haven’t used ckeditor in years and years, so I don’t know how
possible it is to extend, but you do have a site map widget, right?
This pattern is pretty simple to implement if you have the pieces –
it’s just a mash-up, really.
Walter
On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:05 AM, markf wrote:
Pretty cool Walter. I dont see this making its way into pulse, but
its a very nice implementation regardless.
Pretty cool Walter. I dont see this making its way into pulse, but its a very nice implementation regardless.
That’s a shame!
OK, I realise there may be all kinds of technical reasons, and it’s not mine to decide anyway!
But it strikes me as just the kind of usability feature that could set Pulse apart in a fairly crowded sector. And be worth a premium…
Hugh
The way pulse works, integrating into an existing static site, would make it very difficult to do something like this. Pulse could take all its blocks and show a list of those links, but its not aware of every page on the site since they are just static pages with no relation to pulse.
The way pulse works, integrating into an existing static site, would make it very difficult to do something like this. Pulse could take all its blocks and show a list of those links, but its not aware of every page on the site since they are just static pages with no relation to pulse.
As I said, I guessed there might be technical reasons, and the engineering required (assuming it was possible) might be uneconomical at the price point.
But nevertheless this echoes what I have found quite widely across CMS (and I’ve researched a few!) - that they are a solution built around available technology rather than a solution built around customer needs. Of course they offer some useful functionality, but they tend to do it in a way which is evidently code driven rather than user driven. So you get a lot of inelegant, bamboozling interfaces (Pulse is a clear exception!) with superfluous features and complexity…but which rely on your memory or scribblings on the back of a fag packet to link from page to page. Weird!
Don’t get me wrong, I DO understand some of the constraints an author may be under when building something like this, at a market or price point. But that doesn’t negate the principle of the thing.
This does a recursive scan of a folder and returns an array of the
contents. You can filter against any set of filename extensions, and
the example shows a picking list of relative links to HTML files found
in the current directory and all subdirectories. Naturally you would
want to exclude your data files from this scan, but that could just be
a function of their extensions, right? Get your list of blocks, merge
it with this list, and make one menu to choose either static or
dynamic pages when targeting a link.
Walter
On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:36 AM, markf wrote:
On 26 Mar 2010, 2:24 pm, hugh wrote:
On 26 Mar 2010, 2:05 pm, markf wrote:
Pretty cool Walter. I dont see this making its way into pulse,
but its a very nice implementation regardless.
That’s a shame!
OK, I realise there may be all kinds of technical reasons, and it’s
not mine to decide anyway!
But it strikes me as just the kind of usability feature that could
set Pulse apart in a fairly crowded sector. And be worth a premium…
Hugh
The way pulse works, integrating into an existing static site, would
make it very difficult to do something like this. Pulse could take
all its blocks and show a list of those links, but its not aware of
every page on the site since they are just static pages with no
relation to pulse.
I really like this Pulse - I tried adding it to an HTML item (containing text) but I couldn’t figure out where to put the Pulse generated code? Any ideas?
Thanks David. But when I apply, this is the end result (see bottom of page)…
How do I apply styling so it looks like part of the site? I dont want the client to worry about this either - If I set the H1,H2, body texts styles within freeway will Pulse follow this? or do I need to set this up within Pulse? I have just tried messing with the code in Pulse, youll notice the first para is at a bigger font size
Pulse uses generic styling and once embedded will use your sites styling. If you really need pulse to match, you can edit contents.css inside /pulse/plugins/ckeditor/.
How do I apply styling so it looks like part of the site? I dont want the client to worry about this either - If I set the H1,H2, body texts styles within freeway will Pulse follow this? or do I need to set this up within Pulse? I have just tried messing with the code in Pulse, youll notice the first para is at a bigger font size
You can also apply a Tag style to an HTML container - so in FW if the container where your pulse block is going to appear is called pulse1 then you would create a style #pulse1 with the attributes you wanted.
On publish then all the text in that block would get those attributes.
It would mean that headers and body stuff would need different Tag styles and different blocks so not always appropriate but it has its uses.
Thanks - when you say HTML container - do you mean an HTML item in Freeway? Or the HTML insert - when I apply the HTML insert inline by the way in becomes a tiny little symbol?