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iPad does not edit functionality with wiki.

I am using the iPad to access the wiki, and it doesn't the iPad browser doesn't appear to give editing capability for wiki entries - - just viewing. This is the same as the iPhone.

What gives? Why limit the functionality? This makes zero sense.

MacBookPro 2.4GHz, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Apr 6, 2010 9:34 AM

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Feb 10, 2011 1:17 PM in response to hayssam

Well... I wish I could code so fast that it only took a week 😉 More of a lucky coincidence I think but Wikid Wikis and Wikid Wikis Lite are now available on the app store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

More info here http://members.shaw.ca/wikidtools/

The Lite (free) version brings simple text editing. The premium version allows the addition of videos and images from your image library. You can even capture movies and video if you have a device with a camera and upload them without leaving the app.

Enjoy!

Mar 10, 2011 9:39 AM in response to Derek Sibelle

I am thankfull for the recepy on how to enable edit for the iOS. It worked as a charm. That takes us half way trough the problem...

As I understand, the problem is lack of Java support in the browser(s) as this is what the editor is based on. Until Apple choose to give proper support for Java we will suffer no matter...
There might be a work around though. If someone could figure out how to disable the editor - preferably with a button - then we all would be clapping hands 🙂

Or build an app that works 🙂

Unfortunatelly the Wikid Wikis only gave me the option of editing in html mode, and that is not convinient. Also it is not needed as following the recepy in this topic you will be able to edit the pages in html mode in your browser. Also the app did not save my changes to the page.. Hopefully an update will give more functionality 🙂
I did not try the upload though...

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May 27, 2011 6:04 AM in response to JazzyJazzy

oh no - it seems not to work. New blogs made by iphone dont list and I cannot edit them (no keyboard)


Here is the reason probably why apple made it hidden. It does not work yet ???


:-(



this means all the efforts to set up an environment for collaboration is nothing worth - the apple marketing guys are just playing with us


- easy to set up server

- collaborative envirnonment

and so on

Jul 28, 2011 4:48 AM in response to JazzyJazzy

When looking at Mac OS X Lion Server (10.7) the wiki has changed a lot. The reason why you can not edit pages using an iPad, is that functionality for editing with an iPad is missing. Perhaps with iOS 5 this will change..?


For simulation purposes however: this is how far I have come to edit pages on an iPad. What I can do:

- Add a page with default text in it

- Edit the format of the existing text in a page


What I can not do is changing the text, for the simple reason that the text block is not regarded as an editable textblock on the iPad (i.e. the keyboard is not popping up...)


To get where I am:

- Open the Finder and type: Shift+Cmd+G (goto folder): /usr/share/collabd/coreclient/public/stylesheets/ipad/

- Edit the file screen.css (e.g. with TextWrangler)


- Search for "#header .buttonbar.actions .add" (notice the spaces before .buttonbar and .add). This will show the plus sign for adding pages.

- Change "display: none !important;" to "display: block;"


- Goto to the next #header block for .edit (the edit page section)

- Change "display: none !important;" to "display: block;"


Notice that here there is no background-image, so the default pen (for: edit page) will not show. For test purposes, just copy the line "background-image: url(./img/add.png);" from the .add section to the .edit section. Apple didn't create an edit.png file, so no need to change the file name...


Regards

Oct 15, 2011 12:32 AM in response to SPSIE

I gave up a perfectly good (and inexpensive!) Netbook computer to get my dream of an iPad, and I'm ****** OFF that I can't use it at my University's Online forum, (a part of ALL MY CLASSES), where we are REQUIRED to contribute to discussions using rich HTLM forms. I have to instead, use a University computer or go home and get on my Mac. So much for the Post-PC, do everything BS.

Dec 30, 2011 3:37 PM in response to Etri

Using iOS 5.0.1 and Lion Server 10.7.2


Followed @Etri's instructions and, Voila. GUI editing on my iPad2. Thus far only tested base-level text entry but working fine, both onscreen and BT keyboard. Located a pencil icon in one of the image directories (cc) and made an edited copy for the ipad img folder - called it pen.png and it shows and works so I have a "proper" icon.


Thus far the iPhone templates are a much more difficult to crack. I'd be happy getting the system to feed the iphone the ipad css and js but - not to any great surprise, no dice when I backed up the iphone folders and copied the ipad folders, renamed iphone, into their place. I get iphone layouts sans images even after a reboot & clearing the phone cache ... so some more detiailed hunting/editing to do.


For now the answer is the 99¢ AtomBrowser running as "Firefox 5" --- the server doesn't like the Desktop Safari option in this browser. This is glitchy, but functional enough to give me hope until the patch that finally brings editing online. Knowing Apple, it could be awile since lack of file system makes some much more complex custom coding that is more likley the domain of an editing App in the app store vs. a desktop-feature-consistant web-app. Thus... we'll probably never see it and admins who can put all the other helpful tools of Lion Server to use will either play the game or hack together other tools BSD/Linux-Style.

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