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Basic Documentation

Edit-Point is documented by Todd Strattman at http://covertheweb.com/edit-point, and that documentation applies exactly to Edit-Point-Static as well.

... except for the additional 'static ranges' feature, about which we talk here.

Whereas Edit-Point originally intends to be maintained from a central admin page, Edit-Point-Static intends to edit a page directly like in a wiki, without going to a dedicated admin page. But this is not the case yet, so before and after the actual edit, you have to cruise through a small labyrinth of clicks.

Edit-Point-Static in practice

Edit-Point-Static is not comfortable yet. On the page to be edited (like here), each edit region has a little notepad icon. Click it to edit the region. Click slowly and wait for the result, before you click next. To arrive in the edit box, it takes several clicks. After confirming the edit, it takes another several clicks to return to your page and see the changes.

Here the receipt, it might deviate a bit in different situations:

• Click the notpad icon
• If password is switched on, you are asked for this. Type it in and confirm
• The Edit-Point-Static admin page appears, which offers you edit-points to edit. But you want edit an edit-range, which is not (yet) shown there. Press the Back Button of your browser or the Backspace key until you get the edit control.
• In the edit control, first appears plain HTML code. Wait some seconds, until the formatted view (WYSIWYG) appears.
• Make your editing.
• If ready, press the Add/Edit button on the bottom left.
• A page will show  the message 'you successfully edited'. Wait three seconds until this page changes.
• The admin page appears, not yet the page you edited.
• If you have logged in with password, now is an opportunity to log out. Otherwise later you will have to explicitly call Edit-Point-Static to do so.
• Press the browser's Back Button or the Backspace key several times.
• You arrive at the page you edited, but it does not show your changes.
• Press the Actualize Button or F5, then you see your changes.

After a while, you will get accustomed to that 'workflow', and it will be applicable.

To get this 'workflow' more straight forward, is on the schedule for further development. Above described tedious procedure shall be reduced to two clicks: Go from the notpad icon directly to the edit box. After confirming the edit, go directly back to the edited page.

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