[ Closed ] Site Bugs (Page 6 of 9)

This was actually an older problem that was fixed. The quoted text was huge at one point but we changed it.

Thanks,
Sol

It looks like you didn't post it into the group. After you select the group, make sure you save the selection by pressing the red Update Publish Settings button. Just checking the group box will not automatically save it. To fix this, do the following:

1. Go to portfolio
2. Find the title and under Actions click Publish Setup
3. Find the group(s) you want to publish to and select.
4. Press the red Update Publish Settings button.

That should do it.

Let me know if you have other questions.
Sol

Hi Ernie,

Points are charged for every group you select that costs points. If you post to one point group and three free groups, then you will just be charged for the one point group. The free groups (the ones without the coin symbol) don't cost anything to post to.

Hope that helps. We're looking at ways of making this part of the process a bit easier to understand.

Best,
Sol

I see it:
http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/content … /version/2

Because you technically did not re-post this as a new version, it still has the publish date of the original, which is October 16, 2013. As a result, it is way down the list. Just changing the version does not automatically repost. To repost, you actually need to repost as the new version, setting up a new chapter and copying the new version into it as you would any other chapter. Then you can publish. Otherwise, it's just an edit on the chapter.

It's similar to the old site where you can edit the content (which is what you did) which will not change it's posting date, and you can post it fresh with a new version (analogous to reposting on the old site).

Sol

Change the old chapter to version 1. Then publish the new version as chapter 2, version 2. Or keep as it and publish the new chapter as chapter 2, version 3.

Yes, I received them thanks. I passed them on to the developers and the bug is in the queue. Thanks.

I wonder now whether the version number change shouldn't either automaticly repost or provide an option to repost.  The copy-paste operation is less reliable than changing the number and editing and I think I'm not the only one to get caught on this, choosing to move forward with edits on the existing base.  The version control systems I've known for software always assumed that you declared new versions on edits rather than starting with a clean sheet of paper for each.

The option-to-repost suggestion moves this from bugs to potential future enhancements.

Two things, not bugs exactly, but ways in which something is not providing what it was apparently meant to.

First, on page for a group, in the Visit My Group sidebar, the list of groups and forums with messages goes out of date when you read them and does not update on the page, even with reloads, for a considerable time.  I haven't actually timed it, so I don't know.

Second, on the My Groups, by default it shows you ALL groups, including Premium and Free.  That means it shows you EVERYTHING--all new works.  Or you can select an individual group, but then you have to look again for each group you are in (except Premium and Free, which between them represent EVERYTHING, or EVERYTHING that is not in a private group.  There is no way to select mutiple groups, or ALL-BUT-PREMIUM-AND-FREE, which are, in a sense, the 'base' groups, the two parts of the universal set.

More grist for my thinking on groups, but for now adding 'chosen groups EXCLUDING Premium and Free' would probably come closer to what most users would hope to find.

IMO.

Are you using Internet Explorer? If so, the easiest fix is to download Chrome or Firefox. If not, the second easiest fix is to turn off the Compatibility Settings on the browser. This was the problem for the other users. To do this, go to Tools and then find Compatibility Settings. Once you find it, click on it and then you should be able to turn it off.

If you are still experiencing problems, send me a Quickee or a PM.

Sol

I assume that it is a bug (though a small one) but you can delete the one you don't want. Take care. Vern

I'm having problems--frustrations--with the content editing window.  I have copy-pasted a file whose formatting came through badly.  I'm not going to rail about that just yet because I'm not quite sure of the difficulties your up against.  (But note that a control-enter is a hard line break, not a paragraph break, and isn't a solution for single-spacing paragraphs because a paragraph formatting change above it will affect below and vice versa.)

Now, as to the real problem.  Since I'm fixing formatting, I need the formatting bar.  I adjust the main window scroll so it's at the top of the window and I start editing the content from the top down.  When I reach the bottom of what's visible on the window, instead of the editing canvas scrolling up, the whole ferstunk window content scrolls up, moving the editing controls off the visible window.

=Postscript:=  It's actually a bit worse than it seems.  When you get to the end of the document, you =can't= scroll down further in the edit canvas.  The only way to bring the end of your document close enough to the top of the canvas to have that text AND the formatting controls in your window at the same time is to add some text (eg. blank lines) at the end of the document, which you must remember to remove later.

I don't know quite all of what's going on here, but I suspect that the problem could be fixed by making the visible part of the editing canvas short enough, top-to--bottom, to fit in the window.  Even letting it fit in a window that is say, 80% of full screen would probably do for most of us (though it's not ideal).

But I've just copy/pasted from a 'source' window, and I'm using that as my referrence for correction.