Topic: Can't post

Don't know why but when the content box is open, it will not accept my paste, can anyone tell me what I can do to post new content short of typing the whole thing in letter by letter. I use an iPad and pages app for drafting
Thanks!

2 (edited by Temple Wang 2015-02-10 01:31:00)

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Lesley C. Weston wrote:

Don't know why but when the content box is open, it will not accept my paste, can anyone tell me what I can do to post new content short of typing the whole thing in letter by letter. I use an iPad and pages app for drafting
Thanks!

Pasting is almost impossible with an iPad.  The site is not particularly iPad friendly.  I use my Mac for posting. I did see a note somewhere that said Sol was working on some improvements to make the site more ipad friendly.

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Damn! I hope he does as I do not have a laptop or computer and paid for a year without knowing the site was not friendly to my one device. Live and learn.
Thanks for the answer!

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Hi Lesley,
It's not optimized for posting from an ipad right now but it should be possible. What version iPad are you using? I'll run some tests over the next couple of days. We do have some fixed planned that should improve the situation for all iPad users shortly either way.
- Sol

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Heck, I don't know which version, not even sure what your question is , i should be chiseling my work onto a stone tablet, that's how techno savvy I am. But the software is 8.1.3...is that info related to your question?

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SolN wrote:

Hi Lesley,
It's not optimized for posting from an ipad right now but it should be possible. What version iPad are you using? I'll run some tests over the next couple of days. We do have some fixed planned that should improve the situation for all iPad users shortly either way.
- Sol

Sol,
I use the iPad almost exclusively.  I have the latest iPad, latest iOS.  In the boxes used for posting, you can't paste unless you are REALLY fast.  You have to press to bring up the menu for [select/select all/paste], for example, but it disappears in a millisecond.  If you anticipate where the word "paste" is, you can hit it, and 1 out 10 times you can be fast enough.  I have seen this on other websites.  The odd thing is, it's not in all text input boxes that this is a problem.  For example, if I want to paste in this box I am in now [write message] it's no problem.  But if I want to post a submission or post comments into a general review box [say, if I write my commments in Draft or Notes and want to cut and paste into the General Review box - can't do that.]
The problem seems to be in those text boxes where you have the ability to format text.  In normal text entry boxes [like this one, or quickees, pasting is not problem] I think I detailed this problem in another post before.

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Not a great solution, so I hope a real fix will appear, but I bullied the paste into being by beating on it, hard. Thanks for the fast fast fast tip, Temple. But since I am slow, I had to be fierce!

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Lesley C. Weston wrote:

Not a great solution, so I hope a real fix will appear, but I bullied the paste into being by beating on it, hard. Thanks for the fast fast fast tip, Temple. But since I am slow, I had to be fierce!

LOL.  Like trying to step on a cockroach.....I found it works better with two people...LOL...technology, gotta love it.

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Hello, Lesley!  Nice to see your face here again

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pamelablack62 wrote:

Hello, Lesley!  Nice to see your face here again

Great to be back and see your hello, thank you!