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SPPB5 - Feature Request - Optimize Article Integration

Asked by bergwerk 3 years ago Last activity 2 years ago

Hello Team,

as stated privously on many occations, the Article Integration still is very clunky in the latest Pagebuilder.

Since the editing of the Article itself and the Page Content is discoupled it is very frustrating and confusing to work with it on a large scale.

Please see my notes here:
https://www.joomshaper.com/forum/question/21794
https://www.joomshaper.com/forum/question/25160#qa-answer-118269

It should be possible to:

Either integrate the PageBuilder Component as an iFrame direclty on the Article Editing Page - As it was with SPPB 3
Otherwise integrate all the article fields (publishing, access, category) into pagebuilder.

Example as iFrame

Example Options in Pagebuilder

Thanks for consideration.

10 replies

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

3 years ago

Thanks for contacting us. I will add it in our feature request list so that our DEV team will take care of it.

-Regards.

Jeroen

3 years ago

Hi,

I use the "Joomla Article" integration of SP Pagebuiler 5.0.9 on Joomla 4.3.4 also and I must say that the integration isn't as optimal which it first in SPPB 3 was.
It is very annoying that when you create a Joomla article and instead of the "Joomla Editor" you choose "SP Page builder" followed by "Edit with Backend Editor" which then opens a new window. You must then close the previous window, otherwise you run the risk of accidentally saving that previous window and all your created SP Page Builder content from that page will be overwritten by the previous content. What I do now is close the previous window immediately. But this is of course very inconvenient and can certainly be improved.

Best regards,
Jeroen

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

3 years ago

Ok I will add it also.

bergwerk Asked this

3 years ago

Hey there - any news, if or when this will be integrated? Would be great to know if it is on your roadmap or if we have to develop something on our own?

Thanks!

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

3 years ago

I have added it already, I hope team will implement it soon.

bergwerk Asked this

2 years ago

Hello Joomshaper-Team,

any news what the status on this issue is?

Thanks!

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

2 years ago

I have added this feature, it may take some time.

bergwerk Asked this

2 years ago

Hello Joomshaper-Team,

any news what the status on this issue is?

Thanks!

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

2 years ago

Not yet, sorry.

bergwerk Asked this

2 years ago

Since i guess there is still no progress on this issue i started to implement my own solution.

At the moment it's an absolutley quick-and-dirty proof of concept, however it shows that this can be done rather easy. Since all of SPPB Code is obfuscated it took me a few tries to get it going, but since Joomshaper has access to the full source code, this can really be done in a few hours.

Process is simple:
-> Replace the two Buttons for Frontend/Backend with an iFrame of the Backend PageBuilder
-> Hide the Toolbar with CSS, so that the Save/Copy Functions of SPPB cannot be triggered
-> Write a function, which triggers SPPB Save as soon as the "Save Article" Button is triggered, wait until the Save is Done and continue with Article Save.

Works great and saves so much time when dealing with Article Integration:

https://screenpal.com/watch/cZV3bJVJw8S

Code of my Concept here - Please don't judge the Spagetti-Javascript. It's only a Proof of Concept.

https://file.io/dm3p7sFGNpEe

(Note: Can be installed as a standard Plugin in Joomla 4, However it has to be loaded LAST to work properly)

Please forward to your developers - I hope, this makes matters quicker and easier? :-)

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

2 years ago

Thanks for your opinions and solutions. I will inform our team.

bergwerk Asked this

2 years ago

Hello Joomshaper-Team,

any news what the status on this issue is?

Thanks!

Mehtaz Afsana Borsha Staff

2 years ago

I have already added it in our feature request list. I hope our DEV team will take care of it if they think they wants to add this feature.

Thank you.