Edit files in submission wizard
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Hello Some time ago I posted an article using the submission wizard -which is a great tool by the way-. I have a few notes: 1- I uploaded a source. Then updated the source -before the article was editted-, and I used the submission wizard again to update the article. When I uploaded the new source file with the same name as the old the script kept giving me errors till I had to upload it with a different name. Later on I wanted to delete the old files only to be surprised that I can't:omg: Why not adding the delet option of files rather than letting them there until the editting? 2- When my article was editted some phrases were removed from it. That got me frusterated. Yes they were unrelated to the subject but they weren't inappropriate. I think the editting concept itself -Letting others change what I wrote the way they see fit-, is a bit disturbing, don't you think? I like to have my article uploaded with the wizard, and if any reader find anything in appropriate in it they should report it with the link!! 3- After the editting my article it can't be accessed by the wizard. Again it's bothering. The bottom line, why not making article submission like web hosting?? You are hosting a page where the author show some content. Sure you'll put that page in the section you see fit. Also you'd remove any article you see inappropriate. Yet the author may have the write to directly upload to and/or edit his article without having to send it via email -which takes a LOT more time and effort-. This would make article editting more like the forums. Still you will have more control on articles' content than you do on forums' content. BTW: Who edits your article??:-D Regards:rose:
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Hello Some time ago I posted an article using the submission wizard -which is a great tool by the way-. I have a few notes: 1- I uploaded a source. Then updated the source -before the article was editted-, and I used the submission wizard again to update the article. When I uploaded the new source file with the same name as the old the script kept giving me errors till I had to upload it with a different name. Later on I wanted to delete the old files only to be surprised that I can't:omg: Why not adding the delet option of files rather than letting them there until the editting? 2- When my article was editted some phrases were removed from it. That got me frusterated. Yes they were unrelated to the subject but they weren't inappropriate. I think the editting concept itself -Letting others change what I wrote the way they see fit-, is a bit disturbing, don't you think? I like to have my article uploaded with the wizard, and if any reader find anything in appropriate in it they should report it with the link!! 3- After the editting my article it can't be accessed by the wizard. Again it's bothering. The bottom line, why not making article submission like web hosting?? You are hosting a page where the author show some content. Sure you'll put that page in the section you see fit. Also you'd remove any article you see inappropriate. Yet the author may have the write to directly upload to and/or edit his article without having to send it via email -which takes a LOT more time and effort-. This would make article editting more like the forums. Still you will have more control on articles' content than you do on forums' content. BTW: Who edits your article??:-D Regards:rose:
Nader Elshehabi wrote:
When I uploaded the new source file with the same name as the old the script kept giving me errors
This could have either been a file system error on our part or a problem with readers trying to download your file while you were trying to upload and overwrite it. Thanks for the note on that one.
Nader Elshehabi wrote:
When my article was editted some phrases were removed from it.
We try very hard to keep the original flavour of articles but we also try to ensure that the article reads well and will be presented in as professional manner as we can.
Nader Elshehabi wrote:
After the editting my article it can't be accessed by the wizard
No, but instructions on the easiest way to send us your updates can be found in the notification email that was sent to you. The point of editing an article is to make sure it is correct and consistent with other articles. If we allowed authors to re-edit edited articles then they would have to go back into the unedited pool, which defeats the purpose of editing them in the first place.
Nader Elshehabi wrote:
The bottom line, why not making article submission like web hosting??
Because that's not what CodeProject is about. The point of CodeProject is to provide a place authors can submit technical articles and have those articles edited and published in a consistent manner in order to allow our readership to have an easy time browsing and reading the articles.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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