Text editor enhancements

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Trea Ouwehand

• November 13, 2013 08:51

Hi, 

I would like to point out that I find that the current editor is seriously lacking. So I would like to offer some ideas.

1) it's very annoying that when I want to copy something from an article it automatically goes into edit mode. So my idea is only to open edit mode when you specifically click an edit button.

2) Text formatting really lacks! When you have long articles, you have to scroll all the way to the top to create an ordered list or whatever. I have found that I can use keyboard shortcuts for the headings or to make the text bold. But they don't always work the way I want them to. 

My idea is that the formatting bar stays on top of the screen when you scroll, so that you don't have to scroll all the way up all the time.

3) Enters make formatting hell, when you want a heading but you don't want your text spacing so big (makes the article even longer see number 2) and you use "shift enters" it automatically changes your selected heading, and the text you didn't select but "shift entered" under it and gives that the formatting of a header as well.

These are just some things that I came up with. And I think It would really help if the editor get's a little more attention.

Best regards,

Trea Ouwehand

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  Sara Høeg Højlund-Rasmussen

  • October 24, 2017 13:10

  We made updates to the Text Editor that might help you. For example with a new fixed height/header so you always have formatting options available in the top.

  Check them here: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002191592-23-10-2017-Updates-to-Text-Editor

  /Sara - Podio

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  Ron van der Plas

  • November 13, 2013 09:24

  I have the same experience. Nowadays a fully functional editor isn't rocket science. Since working  with information in Podio is mostly done with the text editor interface I think it deserves indeed some attention.

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  Jacquelyn May

  • November 14, 2013 22:43

  Hey guys! 

  I agree that there is definitely room for improvement on the text editor. We actually use a 3rd party editor called TinyMCE, so the options we have to change it ourselves are a bit limited.

  More on TinyMCE here, if you're curious:

  http://www.tinymce.com/

  /Jacquelyn - Podio

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  Sebastian Jopen

  • January 14, 2014 17:10

  We experience the same problems. We also want to make extensive documentation in Podio.

  I saw in source code that you use TinyMCE. Why don't you switch on functionality like
  - fullscreen
  - HTML view
  - Image embedding
  - table

  Without these functions, Podio is useless for documentation.

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  Sebastian Jopen

  • January 14, 2014 17:11

  @Jacquelyn: TinyMCE has much more functionality. Everything is switched off by your developers.

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  Matthew Costa

  • January 15, 2014 18:27

  I completely agree with the others. The editor is the only thing holding me back from using Podio for our entire organization.

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  Timo Sillander

  • November 04, 2014 09:51

  Tables would be great!

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  Jorn Innemee

  • March 15, 2016 09:46

  I Completely agree and I just want to give this feature request a heads up, since there hasn't been any progress on this matter.

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