Quick Title Edit

[Gabriel Torres]

Hi,

One feature that would improve a lot the moderation process would be the option to "quick edit" the topic title from inside the topic itself, i.e. by clicking and holding the title with the mouse.

Thanks.

[iacas]

I agree… but I don't know if this is the place to post about it. I hope so.

Yes, from that screen you can click right through to the forum where the topic is located, but sometimes it's on page 4 or 7 or something and you can't find it readily.

[Vero Pepperrell]

@Gabriel Torres  I asked support how to edit a title from within the post, and it was pointed out to me that editing the first post allows you to edit the title. Not ideal but reasonable.

I'd prefer to see the "Edit title" option in the "Moderation Actions" dropdown menu, rather than another hidden click + hold option (which our moderators didn't discover until we found out about it accidentally and let them know). The other inconvenient side effect of this hold + click option (other than poor discoverability) is that when used in the forum section, right-clicking to copy a thread URL causes the title field to be inadvertently made editable. 

[Adriano Faria]

50 minutes ago, Vero Pepperrell said:

I'd prefer to see the "Edit title" option in the "Moderation Actions" dropdown menu

Made a quick plugin: Quick Title Edit.xml

 

I probably will submit it to marketplace after someone else's tests.

[Vero Pepperrell]

@Adriano Faria Interesting idea - we're on the hosted version of IPBoard, so as far as I can tell, this isn't possible for us anyway. 

[Adriano Faria]

Just now, Vero Pepperrell said:

we're on the hosted version of IPBoard, so as far as I can tell, this isn't possible for us anyway. 

Yes it is. It doesn't require any upload of files. Plugins are installed on your ACP.

[Gabriel Torres]

@Adriano Faria Excellent, many thanks! This helps a lot. I've installed it and it is working like a charm. This should be a out-of-the-box option as it was in the 3.4.x series.

[Adriano Faria]

Plugin is available on marketplace:

 

[Gabriel Torres]

@Adriano Faria The only "problem" with this plugin is that it bypasses the Rules we have to send out a PM to the post author whenever a moderator edits the post. So, using "the long" method the post author is notified via PM that his post was edit, whereas using your "quick method" the user doesn't get any notification. Is there any way to improve that? Many thanks.

[Adriano Faria]

No. What I did and you're call "quick method" is add a textbox, update title and seo title, add to mod log, handle search index, etc., exactly what the edit() method does ("the long" way, I guess).

This is made to work alone. It has nothing to do with any other resource. Honestly, I don't even think about in this or any other 3rd party resource when I start something. If everytime I want to do something like this (that I really don't need to), I need to worry if someone is using a "rule" or something, then I have 2 options:

1 - I do and it's up to the user decide if will use it;

2 - do not do it.

Meanwhile I stand with #1. it was just 10 min to rest my head from issues in other ressources.

Don't get me wrong; not being rude.

Edited November 4, 2016 by Adriano Faria

[Gabriel Torres]

No worries, @Adriano Faria just double-checking.

[Charles]

This will be standard in 4.1.18.

[Gabriel Torres]

Excellent, @Charles many thanks for taking my suggestion into consideration!

[Adriano Faria]

On 29/11/2016 at 6:33 PM, Charles said:

This will be standard in 4.1.18.

Thought this would be a suite-wide feature, like rename titles in category/forum view. It only works in Forums app.

Nevermind. Just retested it and seems to work in other apps.

Edited January 30, 2017 by Adriano Faria

[Gabriel Torres]

@Charles Thanks for adding this option. I've just upgraded to 4.1.18 and it is working fine. However, I have one question. I was only able to use the "quick edit" function on forums (list of topics), not inside the topic itself. Is this the expected behavior? Thank you in advance.

[Adriano Faria]

1 minute ago, Gabriel Torres said:

However, I have one question. I was only able to use the "quick edit" function on forums (list of topics), not inside the topic itself. Is this the expected behavior?

You probably edited the topic template. Any change will only take effect if you revert it. 

[Gabriel Torres]

Thanks @Adriano Faria. I've just checked and that is the case indeed. Problem fixed. Thank you for your help!

[LiquidFractal]

Why not make this standard for Blog and Gallery album/category titles as well?

[Adriano Faria]

Just now, liquidfractal said:

Why not make this standard for Blog and Gallery album/category titles as well?

It is. All IPS apps has this feature from 4.1.18 onwards. 

[LiquidFractal]

3 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

It is. All IPS apps has this feature from 4.1.18 onwards. 

Well shut my mouth! I thought it was only for forums posts.  I see it's for Gallery items but not Category or Album names, but still it's a great feature to have!

[Adriano Faria]

It is only for content items, AFAIK. 

[waccoe.com]

A brilliant feature, but seems to have disappeared with 4.2? 

[Adriano Faria]

1 minute ago, waccoe.com said:

A brilliant feature, but seems to have disappeared with 4.2? 

Working fine on 4.2.1:

[waccoe.com]

14 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Working fine on 4.2.1:

Not on ours

Edit: rebooted browser.  Works now  

Edited August 4, 2017 by waccoe.com

[SRFA]

Hi!
This is exactly what I was looking for... but the plugin seems to have disappeared from the marketplace.
@Adriano Faria, did you remove it? do you plan to make it available again in the future? Many thanks for your answer!