Junco User Documentation

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/5499/17Oct2013/In-Progress-Junco-enduser-testing

http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/11/Lewiki_Help

Junco was designed to support multiple users who can follow users and tags and add replies. But in the example usage below, the app is used as a one-person personal publishing site. The documentation, however, will explain usage as if multiple people used the app.

Example usage: http://jothut.com

Account Creation

A new user enters a username and a valid e-mail address. The system sends the user an e-mail with an auto-generated password and a link to activate the account. After the account is activated, the user can login.

Changing Password and E-mail

After logging in, the user can click on his or her username and follow the link and form fields to change the password and e-mail.

Generate New Password

On the login page, a user can request the app to generate and email a new password.

Editing the Profile Page

Users can personalize their profile page by adding links, plain text, or Textile markup to create HTML. The profile page data entry box supports template includes and the double-bracket wiki link feature.

Hashtags

Microblog posts (notes) and blog posts (articles) are limited to a max of eight hashtags.

Hashtag format consists of meaningful, categorical, alphanumeric text preceded by the pound sign.

Hashtags are used to organize and identify content. Tags help with searching.

I like to start with the general and move to the specific when including tags.

Examples (with the pound signs excluded):

• nature - insects - butterflies
• sports - football - nfl - browns
• media - design - mobile - app

A "tags" link exists to show all microblog and blog postings with tags. The tags can be displayed by name, count, tag cloud, and the top 30 tags.

A max of eight tags are permitted per post.

An RSS feed can be obtained for each tag. The feed shows the 20 most recently created/updated posts.

Microblog Posts or Notes

These are short posts with a limit of 300 characters. They are entered in the small textarea box, located on the homepage.

Titles are not entered.

No preview, just a post button.

The only formatting includes:

• Raw URLs are converted into clickable links.
• Hashtags converted into clickable search links.
• /1234/ means linking to another microblog post that has ID number 1234.

These posts cannot be edited.

But microblog posts can be deleted from the home page stream by clicking the [delete] link. The post is not removed from the stream. A deleted post can only be viewed on the home page stream by the logged-in owner. The deleted post will appear with very small text with a light yellow background. The deleted post can be added to public viewing by clicking the [undelete] link.

The RSS stream for a user's microblog posts can be accessed on the user's profile page.

Blog Posts or Articles

These can be short or very long.

Posts can be entered in a medium-sized textarea box, or the enhanced 'editor' can be used.

Blog posts can be previewed before being saved.

Blog posts can be edited.

Versions

Old versions are preserved. To revert back to an old version, the user edits the old post and saves the post.

Differences

Differences can be run on two versions, showing changed, additions, and deletions.

Titles

No separate input text field exists for the title. The first line in the blog post is used as the title. If the line is long, then the first 150 characters will be the title.

If the title contains a colon punctuation mark, then the text preceding the punctuation mark must equal the username of the user creating the post. This namespace convention allows users to create common titles with their username in the title.

If a blog post is created with a title that matches an existing post that was created by any user, then an error will be displayed.

Markup Support

Blog posts support Textile, Markdown, and MultiMarkdown formatting. Textile is the default markup.

Many HTML tags are also supported.

Blog Post Types

Blog posts can be set to private where only the logged-in owner can view the post. It will not appear within the logged-in owner's home page stream. The owner can access private posts through the user's profile page.

Blog posts can be set to draft where they are still publicly displayed, but draft posts do not appear on the home page stream. Draft posts could be found through searching. The owner can view a stream of draft posts via the profile page. Draft posts are automatically created when the double-bracket wiki markup is used, and the post identified by the title contained within the double brackets does not exit.

Table of Contents

If header lines are used within a blog post, then by default a table of contents is created and displayed at the upper right area of the page. The table of contents display, however, can be disabled.

Viewing Blog Source

Users can view the markup source for a blog post.

Related Articles

Based upon the hastags used within a blog post, a list of "Related articles" is displayed at the bottom of the blog post. This list is generated when two or more hashtags match other blog posts. Five related articles are displayed. If more than five exist, a "more" link is displayed that will take a user to the page that shows all the related articles. This feature not apply to nor include microblog/notes postings.

Blog Posts Stream

When showing a stream that includes blog postings, only the first 250 characters of each blog post is displayed within the stream. If the post is longer than 250 characters, a "more" link is displayed.

Blog posts can be deleted from the home page stream by clicking the [delete] link. The post is not removed from the stream. A deleted post can only be viewed on the home page stream by the logged-in owner. The deleted post will appear with very small text with a light yellow background. The deleted post can be added to public viewing by clicking the [undelete] link.

RSS

The RSS stream for a user's blog posts can be accessed on the user's profile page. The feed contains the 20 most recently created/updated blog postings (articles).

Archives

The "archives" page only applies to blog posts.

Special Blog Formatting Tag

The blog_[username] hashtag is used to create a specially formatted stream of blog postings. Only the author's username can follow the "blog_" text when using this hashtag. After clicking on this special tag, the formatted stream will look more like a traditional blog home page.

It's recommended to use the "more." command when applying the "blog_" hashtag. The text preceding the "more." command will appear on the specially formatted blog home page stream. On the blog home page, the "more" link will be displayed to indicate more text exist. If the "blog_" tag is applied to a post, and the "more." command is not used, then the entire blog post will be displayed on the specially formatted blog home page stream, which may be desired for small posts.

The home page stream for this special tag displays posts by creation date. Recently updated blog posts do not appear at the top of the stream, which is what happens on the normal stream display for blog/article postings.

This special tag also includes an RSS feed that displays the 20 most recently created blog postings. Again, recently updated blog posts do not appear at the top of the RSS feed.

The special "blog_" tag attempts to preserve traditional blog functionality.

Redirecting

A blog post can be made to redirect to another posting by using the at-sign at the beginning of a line, followed by the blog post ID number of that a user should be redirected to.

Power Commands

These commands typically start at the beginning of a new line and use the following format:
command=yes|no|

Enhanced Blog Writing Area

Can type and view in split-screen or single-screen modes.

Auto-save occurs every five minutes, provided that at least one key was pressed. The "save" link can be clicked to save too.

If the "preview" link is clicked while in split-screen mode, then the preview will be displayed in split-screen mode.

If the "preview" link is clicked while typing in single-screen mode, then the preview will be displayed in single-screen mode. This preview will display at the same width as the website's width defined in the CSS file.

Click the right arrows changes the mode to single-screen. Clicking the left arrows switches to split-screen mode.

This does not contain live preview. I find live preview too distracting. I could see letters flashing onto the preview part of the screen out of the corner of my eye as I typed. Plus, I have added too many custom formatting options, such as custom Textile-like formatting commands, template includes, etc., that are best achieved with a round-trip to the server. Since this round-trip is plenty fast, I don't see this as a problem.

Old screen shots.

split screen, typing on left and preview on right.

single screen view for typing.

single screen view for previewing.

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Microblog posts which are created by typing in the small window on the home page cannot be edited.

Blog posts (long form posts) can be edited.

If you need to edit a blog post, click the "EDIT" link at the top or bottom of the page when viewing the post.

To edit with the "enhanced" view, then click the small "split" link, which is located near the lower right hand corner of the text area box.

Clicking the split link puts you into a better editing/writing area. This enhanced writing area auto-saves every 5 minutes if new content has been added (at least one key has been pressed.)

Within the enhanced writing area, you can either write and preview in split screen mode or you can click the right-facing arrows in the navigation bar to switch to single screen mode. This provides a larger writing screen.

When writing in single screen mode, when you click "preview," the formatted page will also be shown in single screen mode.

To change from previewing in single screen mode back to writing in single screen mode, click the right-facing arrows again.

To get back to split screen mode, click the left-facing arrows.

Click the arrows to play around. Nothing can be harmed.

To save when you want, obviously, click "save."

ONE FLAW that I have not fixed yet in the enhanced writing area: when my editing consists of nothing but cutting and pasting, the save and auto-save do not work because no keys were pressed to add content. [ #resolved on 23oct2013 ]

So to ensure all changes will be saved, hit the space bar once, (and if you want, you can delete the space) and then click "save."

When moving away from the enhanced writing area, you will get a pop-up message, asking if you want to leave the page. Click "confirm" or whatever the answer is to leave the page.

This confirmation pop-up will appear even after you have saved the content.

This confirmation exists because over the years, I've experienced times where I accidentally moved away from a page that I was adding content to, and when I quickly moved back, all my content was gone and not saved. So I added this pop-up to my new app as a safety feature.

This "confirm" pop-up does not function on Apple devices. I need to change/correct the JavaScript to enable the confirmation pop-up to work on iOS. [23Oct2012 update: "Looks like Apple has disabled the window.onbeforeunload event for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)." - Nov 2010 Stackoverflow post ]

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