We’re new to Scoutbook and are missing from our previous application WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) rich-text editing. BBCode is fine behind the scenes, but there should be a way Just as I can do here to format. It’s a standard today that should be possible to implement in a much mo…

BBCode is a bit antiquated now. Now it’s easy to just implement one of the tons of rich text editor instead of what’s present. I’m not opposed to having it use BBCode on the back-end, but even the implementation on the dead-man-walking Scoutlander is way better: [25%20PM]

To each his own. I find using BBCode or markdown much faster and easier to use than a WYSIWYG editor…

I don’t have anything against BBCode and have used it from essentially its origins, but without a realtime preview when you might have a nested list, it’s just a pain for the vast majority of users. What we have in Scoutbook has caused most of our leaders to miss using other platforms where they co…

With the Feature Assistant Extension, you can preview the email without sending it. [image] It’s not as intuitive as a real-time WYSIWYG interface, but it works now, and doesn’t have to wait until the messaging module is updated. Alternatively, you can lean into your unit forum. Publish your up…

I hadn’t heard of that. So it’s a Chrome patch to add onto Scoutbook core functionality… Better than nothing, thanks! Hopefully we get a proper editor!

Sounds like a good bandaid! Does anyone else want to see a better editor?

I’d like one on general principle, but it’s on my “C” list behind almost everything else, to be honest. I do a lot of ASCII-art formatting to highlight things, since a lot of our parents may not read their email in HTML/RTF-enabled viewers.

It hangs out as a low c for me. Not going to be a deal breaker as I have been with scoutbook for a number of years.

had the non-html reader come up recently and it totally blew my mind. HOW??? LOL

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There’s also a version for Firefox. Both are available with instructions here.

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