Email editor, Linking to files and images
The new image gadget is missing the ability to create a new folder. I have to exit the email editor, go to Files, create a Folder, go back to the email. VERY inconvenient.
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Arthur Dixon commented
Restore old email toolbar so one can attach a file as well as a url to an image. It seems to work fine in the website editor.
Make it so that while editing an email during an editing session, the same folder comes up when going to add an image, a pdf or any kind of file.
To link a file to an image takes the following steps with the new toolbar and file structure:
1. close the email
2. navigate to website link and then files link.
3. find the right folder (which will need to be found the next time one wants to create such a link.
4.open the folder
5 find the file.
6 right click
7. copy the link from Properties
8. navigate back to the email list
9. open the email you were working on
8. select the image
9. click on properties
10 paste the url.It used to take about 3 clicks to do this.
Please restore things.
Thanks very much.
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Arthur Dixon commented
About the awkwardness of the new toolbar and folder scheme.
I was trying to link a file to an image and got a way to do so from one of the staff, but it is extremely awkward and time consuming. Here is the comment I sent to the person who gave me the workaround.Thanks for this. It works. But it is a very awkward and roundabout process. I would like to recommend that you go back to the old way. That would include a way to link a file to an image from the toolbar.
It would be really good if one could create a folder, say, for January 2020. and load all the images and files I want to use in that file and have the file structure arranged that the same folder comes up during any given session of email creation. The process you recommend requires quite elaborate navigation away from the email creator, to webmail, back and then back again to do another link. And one has to re-navigate to the correct folder again and again. This is not an improvement.
Please work this out so things are easier, not harder than they used to be. This is not progress for those of us working on things like email blasts.
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Scott Heidner commented
With the new email update, we have a huge issue with not being able to simply link a file to an image. This was a simple option in the old version, but is not available in the update. A Wild Apricot support person showed me how to do it the long way, but this is extremely tedious. It was very simple to just click on the image and click “File” to link a file to images previously.
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Melissa Symmonds commented
New image gadget doesn't have the ability to delete an image from the files. I wanted to upload a new version and had to rename it. Previously, I could delete one.
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Melissa Symmonds commented
The new image gadget doesn't save where I got the previous image as it did previously. So, every new image I have to traverse my file structure to get to the same place. This is a time waster.
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Cindee Smith commented
It would be nice if you could edit events before sending and not just have the option of delete or duplicate instead of starting over.
Why do you keep changing email composition?
I am simply trying to copy and paste text into an email and attach a pdf and I can't figure it out while I knew how to do it previously. It makes sending emails a burden and takes entirely too long! I am sure you can see how long I have been attempting to send and it hasn't been sent yet! Complete frustration with your website which our club selected. -
Anonymous commented
when adding the button function on the new email system, i cant seem to locate where to just link the button to a file. such as a pdf.