Updates to the Sueetie Wall Message Editor

The newest Sueetie Wall titled The Edge has been seeing a lot of action as we cover the community happenings of YetAnotherForum.NET, BlogEngine.NET, Gallery Server Pro and ScrewTurn Wiki.  They’re each active communities, so it didn’t take long to see what changes we needed to make in the Wall Message Editor while dogfooding it in-house.

A screenshot says a thousand words, so below is the Sueetie Wall Message Editor with notations on each of the new functions.  In short the updates were

1. Added an option to directly edit the message HTML
2. Added the ability to edit a wall message’s title, and
3. Added the ability to update a wall message’s category

We originally planned on adding a new UseRichEditor boolean property to the Sueetie Wall object with the option of using a Rich WYSIWYG Editor, but decided it was overkill.  So instead we enhanced the editor capabilities on editing a message by adding an HTML widget.  The HTML editor for the above message is shown below.  Not very pretty but it does the job when you need to get into the HTML.  We should add that as a security measure the HTML edit widget is only visible to Sueetie Content Administrators.

Two other changes not apparent on the screen are new Sueetie Wall properties to hide either Wall Messages or Comments or both from the Site Activity Log.  Here are those property settings on the Sueetie Wall Management page.  Those should be useful when the Sueetie Wall is released into the wild with v4.0 in a few weeks.