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Feedback ID:
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248
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Status:
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Closed
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Product:
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News Articles
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Implemented?
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Yes
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Created On:
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1/30/2006
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Created By:
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Chris Wylie
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Details:
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When I set the "read more..." link for a news summary to open an external site, I want to be able to select "open in new window"
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Jack Hoelz
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9/27/2006
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This needs to be an option anytime someone sets a link for the article. I have several users who use the module to distribute print material and they would really like the pdf's to open in a new window.
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BarryS
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9/27/2006
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Can't they right-click | open in new window
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Chris Wylie
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9/27/2006
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This concerns the "read more..." link. It is counter intuitive to right click on this link. And enen if you might, most users dont. So now what happens if you have "read more..." open a pdf or external site then it is in the same window. Once users are finished reading pdf's they usually close the window and then they've lost your site.
This has been the A #1 request from my user community for the last year or so. The DNN control that Scott is using has this option included - I'm not certain why he disabled it.
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BarryS
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9/28/2006
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The problem being that if you *force* it to open in a new window, currently anyone who doesn't want more than one window open doesn't have a choice.
Surely it's better to educate users to right-click, rather than *you* to determine how they should open applications on *their* computer? Don't you get cheesed off when another window opens and you're not expecting it?
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Chris Wylie
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9/28/2006
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I don't at all.
In fact I expect a new widnow to open when I am directed off site or to pdfs. I habitually close pdf files after I've read them and find it inconvenient when I have to recover the original site. In your scenario, how would you know which "read more..." links to right click on? Do you mouse over all of them first to see the file type or URL in the status line? I also would like to know how you suggest to "educate" all my users. One site has 20K a day. Flashing red text? Popup dialog boxes? Notes attached to FTD floral bouquets?
On the other hand I would never open a new window from a link in the site navigation menu or for internal site navigation. But that's not what were talking about.
Clearly there are different opinions. The liberty to have options does not trouble me, whereas applications that "force" me do.
My real point is that authors should have the discretion to set up links how they best see fit.
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BarryS
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9/28/2006
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[quote]Clearly there are different opinions. The liberty to have options does not trouble me, whereas applications that "force" me do.
My real point is that authors should have the discretion to set up links how they best see fit.[/quote]
But, by the author having the discretion and setting the target to a new window, the auhor is "forcing'" that option on your users, and contradicting your first statement above.
In order to educate your users, you could change the "read more.. "link to say "read more (right -click to open in new window)..."
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Scott McCulloch
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10/2/2006
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Hi Wylie,
I think it was disabled initially, because it didn't exist when I first used that control. I will be adding the option to allow the author to decide whether or not to open the link in a new window.
I apologise for it taking so long, but this is right up there on priority now.
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Scott McCulloch
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1/18/2007
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This will be out in the next day.
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Scott McCulloch
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1/22/2007
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This is now in the latest release.
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