Radio UserLand Notes

Springfield Weblogger Meetup is tonight at 7PM at the Mudhouse in downtown. Be there, drink coffee and blog it.

I've been doing more development work in Radio than normal and have been looking for some timesavers. I found one on my own by thinking "I wish I could check things in and out of my WebEdit server by right-clicking the table entry." Then I realized, I can. Here's how I did it:

1. Google search for "contextual menu site:radio.userland.com". This is always my best first step--a Google search--because I'm sure that most of my ideas and problems are not "original".
2. I found this nugget that I often overlook. Habits can be good and bad and my habit was skipping through the menu and not reading it. Bad Steve.
3. I chose "Edit right-click menu" from the Developers submenu under "Tools".
4. I added three scripts: Get from server, check out, check in. I copied the source scripts from suites.webedit.menu
5. Saved and closed the windows. Done!

Now I can right-click an item in a table to check it in/out or get it from my default WebEdit server. Perfect!

What's WebEdit? Why it's a feature of the original Frontier software. It's now part of Manila and something that's easy to use to manage UserTalk code when multiple developers are involved.