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Kill off Form (article type) preview
On the Forms panel, it’s possible to hit a Preview button for any Form with its type set to Article. Does anyone actually use this, and if so how, and what for?
In my experience it just renders part of a page, badly, and usually looks nothing like it does in situ inside a Page template. Perhaps other people have managed to use it successfully?
If nobody can come up with a good reason to keep it, I propose to axe the Form Preview feature entirely. Please weigh in here with any anecdotes that may save it, or show your support for its public execution.
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Same experience as yours – it looks remotely like the real thing, if the stars align, my cat isn’t sleeping on the keyboard and crickets. No objections to gently put the feature to rest in the great repo in the sky.
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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Kill it! Just tried it and the click just opens up the actual web page itself. Waste of time.
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I’d forgot it was there. It’s pointless.
Nuke it.
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#5 2015-06-24 01:30:14
- rsilletti
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I think I looked at it once to see what it did, it can go by me.
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#6 2015-06-24 04:40:03
- gomedia
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Yep, gets my bullet.
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Never used it.
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Please be gentle with it.
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Get rid.
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Get rid , never used it!
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#11 2015-06-24 08:23:13
- milosevic
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- From: Madrid, Spain
- Registered: 2005-09-19
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I have never used it on 10 years!
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Never used. Punt it hard.
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12-0 so far, plus me. Things aren’t looking good for the Form Previewer.
I’ll leave this open a day or two and if nobody steps in to save it, I’ll cast the feature to the digital wolves.
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Jolly good!
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