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Sue Hawkins asked a question in eXtension on October 07, 2009 16:30:

Events System

Events question:
When I post, does system automatically compensate for time zone?
Any way to attach a flyer PDF? Or to link to an eXt webpage?
OK to have events that are target to Extension professional development?

Sue Hawkins replied on August 26, 2009 20:09 to the question "Co-Producing Content with multi CoPs - What CoP template does the page go to on the Live Site?" in eXtension:

Sounds good Jason - Thanks!

Sue Hawkins asked a question in eXtension on July 28, 2009 21:07:

Co-Producing Content with multi CoPs - What CoP template does the page go to on the Live Site?

How does it work on the live site when 2 or more CoPs have their main category on a page?
We have a couple of content teams in co-production with other CoPs. I previewed one of those pages, and realized that the nav bars and Community pages can only link to one CoP.
How will the page "choose" which CoP template to fall into?
How have other CoPs managed this?
What are other co-production issues that I haven't thought of yet?

Thanks,
Sue Hawkins

Sue Hawkins replied on June 17, 2009 19:04 to the question "Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site" in eXtension:

Many issues - I know!
Am trying to keep them all in mind as we develop our system.

Since Case Studies, Research Summaries, and Decision Tools are going to be a cornerstone of our content, we want to be able to make a link from each article.
For instance, we want someone to be able to link to all case studies or topical case studies, depending on how specific or general the article is that they are reading.

Any reference that is particularly relevant will be linked directly.
Having all our references on one page makes them much easier for us to manage and keep updated (or so I think). For a number of reasons, I wasn't crazy about extra pages for each of these types of resources, but that may be the way we go... stay tuned.

Anyway - I think I have all the issues clear and can do some internal wrestling.

Thanks Ben and Jason for your feedback!
Over and out - Sue

Sue Hawkins replied on June 17, 2009 17:25 to the question "Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site" in eXtension:

Thanks Jason
OK all, so back to my original wondering now that I know there isn't a real solution...

What do you think of linking from one page to a header in another, while knowing that IE will bring one to that header, then collapsing the table of contents, and so showing the wrong spot in the page.
Hmmm - doesn't sound so great does it? I assume users would find fault with eXtension pages because of that... or at least be confused.

Perhaps better approach for me would be to note what user would find on page, without header referenced in link. Then they would be able to click on table of contents to get themselves to the right spot...

Some situations might make that quasi-acceptable, some not.

Sue Hawkins replied on June 17, 2009 16:39 to the question "Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site" in eXtension:

Thanks Ben, I appreciate you're looking into it, even if I don't like the answer! Maybe we could just ban IE. Any idea what % of people use which browsers? I assume IE is dominant. What others are there in addition to IE and FF?

Sue Hawkins marked one of Ben MacNeill's replies in eXtension as useful. Ben MacNeill replied to the question "Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site".

Sue Hawkins replied on June 16, 2009 19:22 to the question "Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site" in eXtension:

Ben or others with thoughts-
When I noted problem above, I said it was issue in Preview, but then gave the wiki URL. Here is the correct URL for the preview page that is example for how links to header within a page are not working right in IE.

http://preview.extension.org/pages/In...

See last comment for what it's doing.
Is fine in Firefox.
Some way around this so I can use the function in pages to be published?

Sue Hawkins replied on June 05, 2009 20:09 to the question "Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site" in eXtension:

Thanks Ben
I too have IE7(7.0.5730.13).
After playing it over several times, what seems to be happening is that it links as ut should to the correct header BUT then IE "shrinks" the Table of Contents down which scrolls the whole page so that the header now and however many lines below it don't show.
Sue

Sue Hawkins asked a question in eXtension on June 05, 2009 15:00:

Link to Header within a page - will it work on Live Site

I seem to have a problem with linking to a Header in a page. This is the format I'm using [[Biodiesel_Additional_Resources#Biodiesel_Case_Studies]] I tried it in preview mode from Firefox and was delighted that it worked fine. But then tried in Internet Explorer, and it links below the section I'm aiming for. See the links at the bottom of this page for example: http://cop.extension.org/wiki/Introdu....
This was going to be my solution for how to link to specific types or topic areas of "Additional Resources" on most content pages. I don't want to have to separate into another million pages if I can help it! What happens in other browsers? Is there some other way I can successfully code in to link to a section of a page? Do I need a whole different solution?
I'm looking forward to knowledge and other ideas.
Thanks - Sue

Sue Hawkins replied on March 20, 2009 23:11 to the question "What is the right voice for our eXtension tools?" in eXtension:

I'll confess I cracked a smile with the "hold it right there, partner!". Just corny enough, that I couldn't take it too seriously. But, OK, this moment's fun aside, we're a varied enough group that strong phrases are probably not the best choice. And those of us who smiled once, might grow tired of it if we saw it frequently.

So, my vote is neutral or mildly personal.

Off topic, I'm reminded of our CoPs discussion about tone to use in articles that we are writing. We opted for the conversational tone for our introductory articles to put our reader at ease while demystifying the topic. More in depth articles will have a decidedly more technical tone to them.