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1. I opened up a template (Template for News ).
I tried to copy a column-based block set from the (image on the left, text on the right).
I found no way to do so.
This defeats the whole purpose of a Template (to produce pages with a finished look, using new, custom material). I have a dozen images, not just two, as shown in the template.
2. Okay. So I made my own template.
Made a copy of Template for News. Found the string in the database. The use of volatile code formatting and block UIDs makes a quick copy and paste untenable.
BUG(?): As an experiment, I was able to add a column-based block, and it showed up on the front end—but when I added two blocks, it threw a DB error in PHPMyAdmin, of "truncated, string too long" Wait, what? This can't be right. Post can only have 4 images and four paragraphs? Gave up on DB experiment.
3. Decided to see if this latest EB update has solved the drag and drop problem for blocks. Nope. When you go to add a block or item (image or text, for example) to the end of a page longer than the screen height, it does not auto-scroll, so you can't drop it where you want. Sometimes you can drop it lower, then lower, forcing the placement location into view, but often even this terrible, slow method fails (when there are column-based, somewhat complex block sets, usually).
4. Two column blocks in this news template report being 6, 6 (equal widths), but they are not.
I gave up. I'll try one more time using JCE (does that finally work?). If not, I will shift to Joomla articles for the next three months.
I have loved Stackideas since forever. Easy-everything, and the best, brightest, cleanest interface, plus remarkable customer service and friendly, smart techs/ reps. Your transparency about issues, bugs, and feature requests used to be the best in the Joomla extension world.
I respect what you tried to achieve here, and I am no baby about post-RC debugging. But this is unusable. You need to stop all else and get ONE thing right (I nominate moving blocks), then ANOTHER thing, until this is ready.
I have lost a client of 12 years, who waited for more than a year for EB 5. She believed in my excitement and praise. I have eight other clients who refuse to use 5 in it's current state, and I refuse to install the upgrade for them. I have suffered a serious loss of face with all of them, because the ONE THING I praised your team for above all else is what you have failed at completely here: EASE OF USE.
I still believe in you. You have the makings of greatness here. But you are tweaking details and missing the big picture.
Put yourself in a room with 5 users. Give them no special help. Watch them struggle for several days. Then take those lessons and fix your spectacular, almost-there tools. It has to go simple, fast, and smooth EVERY TIME. Pros MUST be able to use your tool for mass production.
Your friend,
Greg
I tried to copy a column-based block set from the (image on the left, text on the right).
I found no way to do so.
This defeats the whole purpose of a Template (to produce pages with a finished look, using new, custom material). I have a dozen images, not just two, as shown in the template.
2. Okay. So I made my own template.
Made a copy of Template for News. Found the string in the database. The use of volatile code formatting and block UIDs makes a quick copy and paste untenable.
BUG(?): As an experiment, I was able to add a column-based block, and it showed up on the front end—but when I added two blocks, it threw a DB error in PHPMyAdmin, of "truncated, string too long" Wait, what? This can't be right. Post can only have 4 images and four paragraphs? Gave up on DB experiment.
3. Decided to see if this latest EB update has solved the drag and drop problem for blocks. Nope. When you go to add a block or item (image or text, for example) to the end of a page longer than the screen height, it does not auto-scroll, so you can't drop it where you want. Sometimes you can drop it lower, then lower, forcing the placement location into view, but often even this terrible, slow method fails (when there are column-based, somewhat complex block sets, usually).
4. Two column blocks in this news template report being 6, 6 (equal widths), but they are not.
I gave up. I'll try one more time using JCE (does that finally work?). If not, I will shift to Joomla articles for the next three months.
I have loved Stackideas since forever. Easy-everything, and the best, brightest, cleanest interface, plus remarkable customer service and friendly, smart techs/ reps. Your transparency about issues, bugs, and feature requests used to be the best in the Joomla extension world.
I respect what you tried to achieve here, and I am no baby about post-RC debugging. But this is unusable. You need to stop all else and get ONE thing right (I nominate moving blocks), then ANOTHER thing, until this is ready.
I have lost a client of 12 years, who waited for more than a year for EB 5. She believed in my excitement and praise. I have eight other clients who refuse to use 5 in it's current state, and I refuse to install the upgrade for them. I have suffered a serious loss of face with all of them, because the ONE THING I praised your team for above all else is what you have failed at completely here: EASE OF USE.
I still believe in you. You have the makings of greatness here. But you are tweaking details and missing the big picture.
Put yourself in a room with 5 users. Give them no special help. Watch them struggle for several days. Then take those lessons and fix your spectacular, almost-there tools. It has to go simple, fast, and smooth EVERY TIME. Pros MUST be able to use your tool for mass production.
Your friend,
Greg
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