Preview button doesn't work

Hi,

I’m using Revolution 2.0.0, and the "Preview" button in the top right of the Manager doesn’t work correctly.

It loads the page as it appears in its published state. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t "preview" the page at all, but just opens up the live page in a new tab.

The only way to get a change to display in the browser is to save (i.e., publish) the resource.

I really need a working preview feature for my client. Is there a plugin I can get that does this? Any idea why the button isn’t working? It doesn’t work for template variables either.

Thanks!
Andrew

Although I haven’t started using Revo in any real capacity yet, if it is similar to Evo, the ’Preview’ button really is just a quick link to open that published/saved page in a new window/tab.

There has been some talk on the forums about a staging area and other live preview options, but to my knowledge nothing actually exists.

However, I could be wrong and Revo may have a live preview - someone may be able to tell you otherwise.

I’d love it if I could get an experienced Revo user’s confirmation about this. My client really needs a live preview option, as is readily available in pretty much every other CMS system I have evaluated.

If it does come readily installed in MODx, is there a plugin I can download?

Thanks!

If I look at the changelog for 2.0.2...

- [#MODX-2240] Site - Preview now dynamically previews current editing context

I’m not sure if this means it is supposed to dynamically preview what you’re editing, cause if it is that aint working for me either.

"preview" doesn’t "preview" for me in MODx Revolution 2.0.4-pl2 either. i’ve always had to explain to editors that "preview" really just means "view on the front-end".

That’s honestly worthy of a bug request as it’s unclear.

Then I’m wondering what it is supposed to do... be a "view on front-end" button, or actually show the content as it is being typed in the manager?

If a user could ’save’ a resource, preview it as it would look on the site, then ’publish’ it if they were happy with it, that would be awesome. I know it isn’t a big deal to then go back to the published resource and change it if needs be, but I think that extra bit of flexibility, where the user could review and edit before it goes fully live, would be really helpful - it would act as a buffer/safety net, in case they mess anything up.

Quote from: dan_s8 at Oct 28, 2010, 07:26 AM

If a user could ’save’ a resource, preview it as it would look on the site, then ’publish’ it if they were happy with it, that would be awesome. I know it isn’t a big deal to then go back to the published resource and change it if needs be, but I think that extra bit of flexibility, where the user could review and edit before it goes fully live, would be really helpful - it would act as a buffer/safety net, in case they mess anything up.

That’s exactly how I expect a "Preview" button to work. What we have now is a "view live page" button, which, though not useless, is far less helpful than an actual preview.

I work with some high traffic sites. It’s just not acceptable in all cases to trial and error content on live pages. A preview is essential.

What I’ve done for now is created duplicate, unreferenced resources and I’m having my client edit the content on those, publish to them, and then copy the content over to the actual, live resources when they’re satisfied.

This adds an additional, and to my mind unnecessary and cumbersome step to the publishing process.

There’s an option in the settings somewhere to make resources unpublished by default.

Use that, tell clients to hit save, and then click on Preview (using their Managers’ session they can see unpublished resources).


When they’re happy, t hey can tick the Publish box or right click -> publish.