EverQuest 2 Wiki
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I'm not a fan of the new editing system. It's just not very obvious how to do things, and some things that should work are stubbornly impossible. Such as: If you want to update the quest information for a quest, you first need to notice that when you move your mouse over it in edit mode, it turns blue. That's your big hint, which is supposed to make everything obvious. Not. If you click on the blue part, there's a QuestInformation template button that's displayed, but it's not at all clear that the button is a button, because it's lacking all button UI visual cues, such as shadowing. But if you randomly click that spot, you get into the editor for the template. Except there's no context help for the field names, you just gotta know the difference, for example, between "prereq" and "prelist" - something I haven't figured out yet as when I tried to set both only one displayed.

The template editor has an "update preview" button, however the template editor dialog is modal and non-movable, so you can't see the whole preview.

If there's a nice writeup or tutorial on using this new wiki editor system I've totally missed it.

I could do things in the old system better, and it was easier to just look at the raw template for one page to figure out how to write another than to deal with these inflexible lame attempts at a windowing system in a web page.

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