We’ve been listening to your experiences using the new block formatting features and we’re making a few minor alterations to the Rise 360 interface to make it even more user-friendly! When enhanced block customization options were released, we moved formatting and background to two tabs, accessible via the Design icon on the right-hand side of the interface: We underestimated the impact that moving these options to the right would have on how you use Rise 360. So we're doing two things: moving style and format options back to the left and giving them their own one-click menus. That's right—no extra tabs to click! The first icon in the new left-hand toolbar is Content (the pen icon). This replaces the Edit button and is where you'll find all the content editing tools. Style (the artist's palette icon) is where you'll find block background options. And Format (the protractor icon) has block padding options. We hope these changes restore balance to your workflow and make these new features easier to use than ever.

First: Thanks for listening. Going back and forth, left to right was super annoying (especially on a large monitor). Love having the button on the left, but for the love of everything holy - why is it two buttons now? Don't increase clicks and movements for developers, reduce them! If you want to make them separate direct buttons on the block, create a way to get to both theme and formatting inside those popups. Like it used to be. And PLEASE just show the padding sliders. 90% of the time if I fiddle with padding its to remove padding, so again it's an extra click to do something that shouldn't be hidden.

So the problem you created by changing up the formatting toolbar that clearly does not fit the screen when viewed on a regular everyday laptop (as opposed to the articulate coders 4k ultrawide monitor) is now a feature request? Why can’t you just put in a breakpoint so that it wraps the buttons when the screen isn’t wide enough? While I appreciate that there are changes flowing through to Rise after years of neglect, many of these features don’t seem to have seen much real-world testing before muscling in amidst our time-poor workflows. I work on a laptop all the time. This gets in the way all the time. This is not a feature request, its a bug.

After using the new UI changes, is there any chance you can show the default padding so I don't have to click the three dots on every block to set them to my preferred settings? It's adding extra clicks.

What I'm I missing here? The edit menus on the left side covers the text so you cannot see the text, making it hard to edit content. (Try moving the edit icons under to the left or vertical stacked on the left). Next up: The tool tips for the Table controls are below the mouse cursor so when you hover over the table controls you cannot see the tips because the mouse is over top of the tip. (try placing the hoover tool tips to right of the mouse NOT BELOW!)

Yikes! The format options cover my text in the block. This is really frustrating! Please fix. :)

Interface Changes Coming Soon to Rise 360 Block Formatting

claudiarizze768
Community Member
10 months ago
I would like to point out that the size of the D statement depends on the length of the text inserted, it is impossible to align it to the left.
I don't know if this is a bug or expected behavior, in any case it makes the D statement unusable.
I hope it gets fixed.
- KarlMuller
  Community Member
  10 months ago
  Hi Claudia,
  
  This problem has been fixed https://community.articulate.com/discussions/rise-360/formatting-issue-with-statement-d-block#reply-889682
IanHofmannHicks
Staff
10 months ago
Thanks for letting us know how we can improve this feature! We've been using your feedback to guide our iterations and have just released some small (but mighty) changes.

First, a few of you mentioned that the new menu created extra clicks in your workflow. We definitely don't want that! Now you can click between the two menus without closing out the menu you're on.

Another benefit of this new menu behavior is better use of the space to the left of your block content. We tested this with many different resolutions, and the menus would cover content on only the smallest of screens. On a standard 1440 x 900 px width screen, your content should be easy to see even when you're changing design and format settings.

Again, thank you for being part of our community and letting us know how we can make your experience better. We look forward to any additional feedback.
ReneePaskell-bd
Community Member
9 months ago

As of this morning, our subheadings with paragraph blocks are missing texts in the last block of our courses (45).

Subheadings with paragraphs (and bullets) have been magically turned into subheadings only. When we change it back to a subheading with a paragraph it does not bring the text back. We have a block template containing the text. When added it strips the bulleted content off. Any suggestions?
- JoseTansengco
  Staff
  9 months ago
  Hi Renee,
  
  Sorry to hear that you ran into this issue. I responded to you in another post here, and I included a link in my response so you can learn more about the incident that caused the behavior. Once again, we are sorry for the inconvenience this caused, and feel free to open a case with our support team here if you have any questions or clarifications regarding the incident.
ErinBuckley-6d4
Community Member
8 months ago
Thanks, @Sasha - this is an "almost" cool feature. And it really is not a good solution to ask users to zoom out. I, too, look forward to a better solution as this is a constant irritant as I write.