Community Suggestion: Include buttons for Full Edit and View in World at the top of the article preview view

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Include buttons for Full Edit and View in World at the top of the article preview view

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Articles & templates · Created by DMFW
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

  When you search for an article via the dashboard and click on it, WA shows a preview. Underneath the title is a row with a button to use "Quick Edit". If we scroll to the very bottom of the article there are buttons again for "Quick Edit", "Edit" and "View in World". I would like the top of the preview to support the "Edit" and "View in World" options as well as "Quick Edit". There is room in the UI to do this since a row has already been reserved for the "Quick Edit" button and there would be plenty of space for the other two options in the same row.   I find myself working on a number of rather long articles these days (story chapters effectively) and I am not particularly keen on the Quick Edit option for these articles at least. I seem to find myself repeatedly doing a lot of scrolling to get into a full Edit session. If the full Edit (and View in World for completeness) could be made available from the top of the preview without having to scroll to the bottom, it would be a convenient quality of life improvement.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

  Given that the preview already makes space for a Quick Edit button, an Edit and View in World button on the same row would speed up navigation when accessing articles this way. I do appreciate that there are several other ways to bring up a full edit on an article but the preview display seems to be one I use frequently in practice and this would speed up my editing from there.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

  None that I can think of, it just a simple quality of life request and maybe most people won't be interested, but I thought it was worth asking...

The Team's Response

Thanks for your suggestion! We're closing this because the current dashboard will get a major update that will cover this by making the buttons more easily accessible.
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38/300 Votes · +10500 points

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  • +300

    by A Enfeebled Ooze
    on 2025-03-31 15:37

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    by Pandora9
    on 2025-03-30 05:06

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    by zephyr_loves_you
    on 2025-03-26 01:15

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    by Dragolithic
    on 2025-03-25 03:51

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    by MrBakudan
    on 2025-03-23 13:45

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    by Wordigirl
    on 2025-03-21 19:53
    I personally don't care for the Quick Edit and Quick View myself at all. Whenever I go to create an article, I accidentally forget and click the Quick Edit and I don't even know how to go into full edit mode straight from there lol. I would love to have Advanced Edit be more emphasised (if it is not able to be the default). I suppose some peopel love, appreciate, and use Quick Edit but I, for one, do not really. Thanks for suggesting this! God bless.

  • +300

    by Jupiter Melichios
    on 2025-03-21 02:26

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    by chairlegcharlie
    on 2025-03-19 18:32

  • +300

    by oaster2000
    on 2025-03-19 10:50

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    by Ononomad
    on 2025-03-18 13:13

  • +100

    by Roboter09
    on 2025-03-17 12:26

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    by Writing Bishop
    on 2025-03-16 19:19

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    by Kittymonster
    on 2025-03-16 16:14

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    by JoellaKay
    on 2025-03-16 05:18

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    by yatenari
    on 2025-03-15 10:33

  • +100

    by Michael Chandra
    on 2025-03-15 07:53

  • +300

    by Gregorian
    on 2025-03-14 13:55

  • +300

    by Charlotte and Clara
    on 2025-03-13 19:11

  • +300

    by JetpackMonkey
    on 2025-03-13 09:23

  • +100

    by kalvorp
    on 2025-03-13 02:35

  • +300

    by Nightone
    on 2025-03-12 20:39

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    by Thereasonwhy
    on 2025-03-12 20:30

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    by LittleRaider
    on 2025-03-12 19:26

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    by NovaTerra
    on 2025-03-12 17:45

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    by Mahdi Avendesora
    on 2025-03-12 16:13

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    by Buzzard
    on 2025-03-12 12:08

  • +300

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2025-03-12 08:43

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    by bphilippe
    on 2025-03-12 06:19

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    by SierraKomodo
    on 2025-03-12 03:10

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    by A Lusty Dryad
    on 2025-03-11 23:44

  • +300

    by Everwild
    on 2025-03-11 16:02
    Honestly, not sure why this isn't already a feature. It would be super useful to have the full menu available.

  • +300

    by kaixabu
    on 2025-03-11 14:33

  • +100

    by A Adorable Dimensional Horror
    on 2025-03-11 11:13

  • +300

    by Scalenex
    on 2025-03-11 08:17
    This would be extremely convenient for me if implemented, I'd a lot more than 300 coins for this if allowed

  • +300

    by ss2020
    on 2025-03-11 02:11

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    by Those2Nerds
    on 2025-03-10 22:35

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    by A Goodhearted Mlem
    on 2025-03-10 21:28

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    by Cat-Herder
    on 2025-03-10 19:50

  • +300

    by DMFW
    on 2025-03-10 16:14
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