Pecularities and Defects of Site

By Bob Stephen

Search Box: If a search term is entered in the front page box and then activated a second page will open and the search will be carried out. If a refinement is then made to the front page search box this is not passed to the search engine on the second page. What needs to be done is to change the search term on the second page and click search on gthe second page. This then works OK.

Comment dating: There are two dates, Created and Added. Created is added by the site system clock and cannot be changed. This puts the comment at the top of the list assuming the latest-first toggle is set. Added can be changed by the user or editor - it is shown on the comment but has no effect on the sort order. So ... if a comment is published out of order there is not much that can be done to get it into the correct place short of adding an editor footnote to the comment. The "trick" of resetting the local system clock was tried but that doesn't work because the clock used on publication is obviously the one on the server.

Table problems: Some table settings are wiped on publication except that they can be preserved if the table is copied out as HTML and then put in one of the two RawContent boxes (and then called appropriately from the page), eg: