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Authoring experience: Known problems
Last updated on
21 September 2016
In general people expect a much richer user experience around content creation than Drupal offers, much of the functionality that people consider standard for a CMS is simply missing.
- Previewing is a big part of creating content, and people are currently very confused by preview being shown in the back-end instead of front-end.
- The meta tools we present users; menu, revisioning, authoring information are cumbersome and often result to conflicting mental models.
- Text formats are still somewhat of a mystery to most of our users, they miss a WYSIWYG editor.
- The lack of a common workflows like save as draft is a disappointment.
- Tools for moderating content are almost non existent, our filters are hard to use and search is non existent.
Major issues
[ ranked by priority ]
- #1510532: [META] Implement the new create content page design
- #1510544: Allow to preview content in an actual live environment
- #542290: Make it easier to create draft revisions in core
- #1279652: Add title search feature on the node listing admin page
- #1164780: Users miss the "Provide a menu link" checkbox on node/add
- #1123662: Participants did not know how to get the path while creating a menu link
- Autosave
Normal issues
[ ranked by priority]
- #1123696: Does 'Save' publish my content?
- #1562776: Edit Summary label is unclear to users
- #1562804: "Sticky on top" is hard to understand
- #404300: "Promote to front page" is a misnomer
- #491022: Remove weight field from menu item entity forms
- #1562782: Menu settings on content creation are unclear
- #394694: "content has been modified" message confusing
- #1210366: Per-bundle node listing pages, blocks, feeds.
- #1562802: Allow for more images in article
- #1562798: Its hard for users to provide valid input in the authoring date field
- #116939: Add a Cancel link on forms
- #394466: Text format tips do not explain that HTML is allowed when HTML filter is disabled
Unfiled issues
- Add third way of grouping fields (title)
- Using hierarchical select for term selection
- Drag & drop files in upload field
- Add menu link to content preview
- Preview per device/view mode separately.
- Revamp revision diff in core.
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