Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2016/April

Problems and Suggestions regarding wikibook

Thanks for this feedback pole on Wikibook. Here I post, the problems that I’m facing as user.

• 1. When the book is open, but not under edit in book-creator (eg. edits just saved) ; the pages/links are allowed to clicked to add (+’d ), shows signs as-if they are successfully added; but they actually doesn’t get added in the book. Even after opening book-creator and several reloads, they doesn’t appear. The only way to include them, is remembering those articles, then clicked to remove (-’d) , then starting edit with book creator; then adding (+) the pages again.

So please ensure successful inclusion of links into the book, when-ever and where-ever the options for add (+) and remove (-) page is available.

• 2. After adding a link (while editing is on) each time, it need to Reload the page.

Please include the new-entries automatically, without reload.

• 3. On clicking remove (-) icon on links/pages, the respective page on book are so easily getting deleted. So, erroneous or accidental click on remove (-) icon on pages, often deletes important pages.

So, please do-not allow so-easy deletion of entries. Show at-least 2 warnings, and may also provide “turn off” the page removal button. On the book, keep a trace of pages deleted from outside/inside the book.

• 4. While re-ordering the pages on book, I need to drag the heading (sometimes scrolling) ; across all-other headings(page-names) . That confuses where to place the heading. Also, when the mouse fails to drag accurately, some-other heading get scrambled and misplaced. That is terrible.

(Surprisingly, I’m seeing, book-creator can recognize dragging error, and place such wrongly-dragged page-name into the initial zone. However, sometimes it acts on correct-drags also. )

So, a simple, effective remedy could-be taken: Please provide all the new-entries on a separate, Side- Palette. They could be scrolled separately. Then we could scroll the existing book-content to find the proper place, & then click-and-drag the respective new-entry into proper-place of the book. This-will help to avoid scrolling through so-many headings(page-names).

• 5. There are also many-other problems with Click-and-drag.

i. The page-names, often change their place automatically. Causes I don’t know.
ii. The page-names, change their place automatically, if I replace a page-name >1 times on a single edit-session.
iii. While dragging 1 page-name, sometimes, >1 page-names get moved, simultaneously. Causes I don’t know.

So , please ensure the chapter-names don’t change their place automatically. If this is caused by problems with temporary auto-save ( … I guess), then there is a simple way.
Instead of temporary-auto-save, use temporary-manual-save. Provide option like “lock it” or “Stepple it” or “pin it” or such, that is to be manually selected by user. Once placed, if the user again wants to change place of a page-name, the user must have to manually select an option like “unlock it” or “remove stepple” etc. Thus, the computer/server will easily understand, which-one change is done by the user. Thus, the automatic dance of the chapters could be avoided.
Before proceed to change place of another page-name, user must-have to Lock the the previous page-name.

Also, several-pages (under a chapter-heading) could be “grouped” manually, so-that all-the pages in a chapter, stay together. If someone want to move a whole chapter (with all its pages, maintaining sequence), this “manual” grouping would help.

By this way, usually, I don’t need the “arrange alphabetically” option. More-over, accidental/ erroneous click on this option can destroy months or years of labor to re-order. So, please keep an option to turn-Off this option, and also display warnings.

• 6. Many copies of the same book, generated. There are 2 folders/drives to save the books. They often become different.

Please ensure, while saving the last-edit, both-copies get updated simultaneously and automatically. Warn, if I start edit an old-version. Notify, I’m editing on latest revision. Please display, conflicts in recent edits, specially, if there are some-pages more in older-versions, those are absent in newer version.

• 7. Some informations such-as book-descriptions, problems(bug command), copyleft cover etc. doesn’t get saved after few-edits. They’re to be set again and again.

Please automatically add them to next edits

RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 10:02, 3 April 2016 (UTC) RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 05:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)