Friday, December 14, 2007
Quick Dev Update
Just a quick post to update everyone on some progress that was made with WriteMaps today. First of all, I was informed of a bug (via Ajaxian comments) where sometimes deleting and then adding the same page would throw an error. This issue has been resolved now - thanks for the tip! Also, a few people had requested that page notes allow line breaks in the text (multi-line notes). This is now implemented as well.
Lastly, I received feedback from several members requesting an option to export an HTML list of a sitemap. Since I am trying to avoid adding features that are not going to be useful, I've decided to allow people to demo this feature on a trial basis before integrating it into the UI. If you're interested in trying it out, grab this bookmarklet : WriteMaps: Export HTML. You can use it any time you have a sitemap open to export your sitemap as a simple unordered list with links. This could be used on your site as a clickable sitemap/directory. I should note that it is currently disabled for Internet Explorer users due to the way IE's rendered markup looks. So if you get a chance to try it out, please let me know if you'd like it in the file menu!
Posted by Scott on 12/14 at 02:52 AM
Comments
Excellent Idea! I would add this AND PDF export.
Posted by Avant on 12/16 at 05:45 PM
@Avant: Thanks. Does that mean you tried the feature and found it to work well? Haven’t gotten much feedback on this one yet, good or bad…
Re: PDF export: This has been requested quite a few times and I’m looking into ways to support it. For now, if you’re on a mac, you can always print to PDF (and there are PC plugins to do this as well).
Posted by Scott on 12/16 at 05:50 PM
I am able to print to PDF easily on my Windows Vista computer with Adobe Acrobat installed. Just FYI.
Posted by bridgetstewart on 12/19 at 03:48 PM