[Xerte-dev] Re: Making the "Do you want to publish your changes?" popup optional?

[Ron Mitchell]

I think the original concept of that prompt dates back to the flash editor where it would be easy for an author to think what they were seeing when previewing/playing an LO would also be what their students would see. During training I usually promote it as a useful feature in that you could make changes to an LO you had already shared without your students seeing those changes until you were ready and clicked publish and the prompt is a reminder of the choice to publish or not. 

When first developing an LO publishing or not doesn't really make a difference until you've changed the access properties to something other than private.

I don't have access to double check at the moment but the more intrusive prompts I've noticed recently are something like "are you sure want to leave this webpage..."  And also when closing the workspace something like "you still have x editor windows open"

Sent from my iPad from Newport RI

> On 10 May 2015, at 17:55, Smith, Bradley <brsmith at akamai.com> wrote:
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> At least when I am first developing an LO, it's much more likely that I don’t want to publish, even if I happen to be closing the editor for now. With this new popup it’s only a matter of time before I absent-mindedly press Enter to make it go away and end up publish something I didn’t mean to. What would people think about either including an option to not do this (maybe based on something settable in the LO/workspace’s properties?) or replacing the javascript confirm() that is currently used (looks like this comes from file_need_save() in template_management.js, based on output from versioncontrol/template_close.php?) with something less obtrusive, like a yes/no bar that appears above the normal Xerte New Folder, Publish, etc buttons. I can put in some time to work on this (at least the settings-based one, which sounds simpler), but I want to see what others think before just diving in.
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> —Brad
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