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    • Two Quicktag Questions

    Posted by Zero posts: 101

    Hi folks - any idea how I can
    1) re-order my quick tags?
    2) set the quick tags to Show by default rather than be hideen?

    -Zero

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    Posted by Marc Laporte posts: 1633 Canada

    Good ideas!

    At the moment (1.9.7), these options do not exist. Please add to wishlist on dev.tikiwiki.org

    Please indicate what would be the ideal order for the Quicktags. Maybe I could change the order in the default install. (which would be simpler than coding a way to change the order)

    Thanks!

    M smile

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    Posted by Zero posts: 101
    Is there no file I could manually edit to achieve this?
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    Posted by Zero posts: 101
    Unfortunately I'm not having any luck editting the tiki-edit_help_tool.tpl file to the effect of being able to have the quicktags menu expanded by default. I removed the div, but I'm totally unclear on what needs to go when you say "remove the javascript toggle". I checked out your page, but I didn't really find it too helpful as finding out what I need to do... can you give me anymore help?
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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    > Unfortunately I'm not having any luck editting the tiki-edit_help_tool.tpl file to the effect of being able to have the quicktags menu expanded by default. I removed the div, but I'm totally unclear on what needs to go when you say "remove the javascript toggle". I checked out your page, but I didn't really find it too helpful as finding out what I need to do... can you give me anymore help?


    Look for these lines:

    • <a href="java script:toggleBlock('quicktags.....
    • <div id='quicktags.... and its closing </div>


    and remove them.

    HTH,

    -Rick

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    Posted by Zero posts: 101
    Ahhh - awesome. Worked like a charm, thankyou.
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    Posted by BillMac posts: 18

    > 1) re-order my quick tags?

    Because the QuickTags sort in reverse alphabetical order, I added letters to the tag names in the order I wanted them. For example, I wanted the font attributes to be grouped and to be the first in the listing because they are most likely to be used. So,

    z_bold
    y_italic
    x_underline


    It's ugly, but it works. I don't think many folks browse the help balloons so maybe I'll get away with it.

    I also removed some of the more complex or less likely-to-be-used tags to simplify things for our users. And I added H2 and H3 headings as above and Red text and Green text.

    A prettier way to put the tags in a desired order would be very nice.

    Bill

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    >
    > z_bold
    > y_italic
    > x_underline
    >
    >
    > It's ugly, but it works. I don't think many folks browse the help balloons so maybe I'll get away with it.
    >

    Instead of using simple letters to order the tags (which, as you say, leads to useless popup text), try using more useful names:

    • style, bold
    • style, italic
    • style, underline
    • etc.


    Not perfect, but (IMHO) a bit better than simply z.., x.., y.., etc.

    HTH,

    -Rick
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