[Using Sakai] sakai-user Digest, Vol 41, Issue 6

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Gregory,

This isn't Sakai that is performing poorly, it is the editor. Perhaps try pasting your content into the CKEditor demo here, and see how it handles it.
http://ckeditor.com/demo/

Word documents contain a lot of cruft and it can get very complex if you have more than simple formatting, which is why you found those suggestions online.

As others have mentioned, if you want to create your HTML content externally then you can just upload it into Sakai. You can do this via a WebDAV connection from various tools such as Dreamweaver, see 'Upload-Download multiple resources' in the resources tool, to get the information/url.

cheers,
Steve



On 19/07/2012, at 1:41 AM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:

> Another editing example: 
> One other problem I had was that I did a paragraph of text paste, without using the Word-paste option, and tried to fix it, but still got the HTML errors.
> 
> Since the editor would only undo one level, and it did not show where the errors were, it was a stuck situation. Copy & Export to Word lost information, and it wouldn't save since it had errors.
> 
> Finally I found a fix by "view source" and manually locating and deleting the HTML tags. Even then I didn't find a way to search in the editor or to do replacements.
> 
> Online discussions say - "do editing in Word, and limit formatting". All of these limitations surprise me. With all of the big-name users and development in Sakai, these seem like fairly notable limitations for a content creation and management system. The new UVa editor changes help, but still the editor seems pretty second-class.
> 
> Maybe a better paradigm is that Sakai is more of a front-end portal to content (which is created elsewhere), and adds the course management tools?? But I am very new to it and still learning the basics.
> 
> -------------------------------------------
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gregory Guthrie
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:54 PM
>> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: RE: sakai-user Digest, Vol 41, Issue 6
>> 
>> New user FAQ?
>> Is there a standard site or process to pick up additions or new modules like this, or does one
>> have to wait for it to get incorporated into a new release?
>> 
>> The editing process on Sakai seems notably limited, the edit windows come up as a very small
>> area of the screen, and even expanding them (ctrl-alt-enter) gives only a slightly larger edit
>> window. I would have expected a full scale pop-up or some-such.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>   1. Re: Announcing a turbo-charged editor for Sakai (Adam Marshall)
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