Can′t make regular note with multiple lines

Hi Lars,

Hmm, that does sound like a bug,, you should be able to use a enter of course.
A CMD + Enter does fire a save action though.. (don’t exactly remember what I did for Windows on that area)

Can you verify that you’re not accidently holding the CMD (or maybe its stuck for example)?
Also, can you test what its doing when you press shift + enter?

Lastly, on what version of WP and Operating system are you?

Thanks!
Jeroen Sormani

Hi Jeroen,

I’m having the same problem. I’m using Windows 10 and WP version 4.3.1.

When I press enter, or shift-enter, there’s no new line, the note saves and then I have to click Edit again to edit the note. I have not been able to add a new line.

Thank you for doing all of this work to make something nice for people to use.

Mike

Hi Jeroen
Sorry I didn’t respond before now

I think I know what the problem is!

The input field for the note is missing

It is only the Heading that can be edited … and now it makes sence that “newline” is not possible

Its the newst WP version and your plugin is updated!

I’ve made a screecast … Link

I hope you can fix this because it is by far the best “Dashboard note” plugin ??

Thanks

Confirmed. That’s what I’m seeing too.

I went back to play with this and actually found something different. Here’s the sequence:

– create a new note, then change it from list to note at the bottom by clicking the note icon.

– type in the title for the note. At this point, you cannot select the field for the note itself with the mouse, nor can you see it.

– From the title field, hit the tab key. It takes you into the body of the note itself. Once you add some text in there and save the note, everything works. You can edit the note, use your mouse

So it works, but maybe there is a CSS issue. I tried looking at the code myself but couldn’t figure it out.

It would be nice if there were a border around the notes field itself, as there is on the list items.

Thanks,

Mike

Hi,

I’ve looked at the video, you’re only editing the title field, not the note content itself.
The pencil (edit) icon is meant for changing the title.

Try to click below the title, just above the black bar that shows up when hovering, there you can edit the note ??

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Jeroen

That doesn’t work on my computer. Only way to get into that is for me to edit the title and then hit the tab key.

@jeroen
I can’t do as you surggest

@miketurco
Your “tab-trick” works for me as well …. and after that it works

… its not clear how to save the note after typing – mayby it also auto but a “save”-icon in the black bar would maybe be an idea ??

Thanks alot both

Greetings from Copenhagen

//Lars

Hi Mike/Lars,

Thats strange!

I don’t have a Windows 10 computer available so I can’t test on that unfortunately ??
Though it is possible, I don’t expect it to be the OS.

What browser are you guys using? Could you try Chrome and see if that does work for you?

@lars, the note saves automatically after each action (off focus / click, cmd+enter), there’s a save icon in the right top title bar.

This is how it supposed to work: https://cl.ly/3P1d2I3s1o3M

Let me know ??
Jeroen

It works fine in chrome.

The problem in firefox is the text box (and surrounding div or whatever) is a little short, and the pop-up menu at the bottom covers up the place where you would click the mouse.

I found a fix, methinks. In the file mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-dashboard-notes/assets/css/wpdn_admin.css

I changed this:

.wp-dashboard-note {
line-height: 1.5;
font-size: 14px;
}

To this:

.wp-dashboard-note {
line-height: 1.5;
font-size: 14px;
height: 30px;
}

I don’t know whether that’s the “proper” place to apply that piece of code, but it works. (Story of my life…)

In any event, I am now up and running.

Thanks again,

Mike

Actually… that is not the right place to modify the style. It screws up the other notes. I didn’t notice at first because all of my other notes were collapsed.

If you’d like, you can suggest some CSS. I’ll give it a run and let you know how it goes. My time is limited over the next few days so it might take a day or so to get back to you…

Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for letting me know, I’ll test it in Firefox soon.
(also having some time issues)

Thanks,
Jeroen

Hi Jeroen

The “auto-save” is not working (as it does in your video)

By the way … Im a FireFox user (Windows 7 pro)

//Lars

Hi,

@lars, doesn’t it work, either in a note list or just regular note?

@mike, can you try this peace of CSS, I’ve had luck with it in Firefox on Mac:
.wp-dashboard-note-wrap .wp-dashboard-note { min-height: 30px; }

Thanks!
Jeroen

I didn’t know if I was supposed to replace an existing line in the file, so I just added it to the bottom of the CSS file. That worked perfectly. Thank you very much!