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I think the beta has gone fairly well so far.

But I think on the basis of the experiences so far, we will see a round of improvements to the interface in the next week

But it will all be about making the tech easier to use, the actual inner workings will remain the same, as such any work done by members will remain valid.

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One improvement which is going quite well is adding a lot more useful functionality directly into the wysiwyg editor.

You can now browse the server and upload or pick out files directly in a popup interface.

Note: this is not yet live on the actual forums.

[admin (no pm's please)]

Okay now you can also upload files via the editor interface.

The other planned change is to create more of a standard toolbar, with options like:

Save | Save as New Page| Cancel

appear at the top right of each page, rather than at the bottom. But this is more of a cosmetic designed to make buttons like SAVE to be in your face, since we have had one incident of someone complaining setting were not taking effect, when they were in fact simply not saving. This confuses me frankly, as every other forum admin setting every where else requires you to click on a submit or save button

[admin (no pm's please)]

Again not active on live pages yet, but pages can now take parameters. e.g.

I have a link:

http://birthdayhack.co.uk/post.html?postid=10

which takes me to a page with:

{MYFF.CONTENT postid="{postid}")

and the page will display the topic represented by postid 10.

If we now let {MYFF.LATESTPOSTS} take a parameter to make it point to a page of our choosing, we can start to create an extremely dynamic set of pages.

[admin (no pm's please)]

This is just way cool. All SEARCH components like {MYFF.LATEST} etc could have the setting either:

link="CONTENT" or link="FORUM" which would direct their results to the portal of forum.

Now if you have say:

link="showtopic.html"

and create a web page showtopic.html with

{MYFF.CONTENT topicid={topicid}}

then you will see the topic shown

The implications of this are vast.

I plan to role out these change Saturday.

[admin (no pm's please)]

Make that next Saturday, there is plenty for people to be playing with right now, and the time here is ripe for a little less pressure and some attention to the details.
It is not always enough just to get things working, it is best to get them right, so I have been spending some of the morning shifting around wysiwyg editor code to make it easier to deal with editor upgrades.

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The parameter passing is now there, the rest is not.