Submitted by WayneK on 2018/07/26 16:45
Could someone clarify where we're at on using the clipper?  I know that the Firefox clipper stopped working when I updated to Firefox Quantum, but I was still able to use the universal clipper (though I had to manually copy/paste the url).
 
Since I've updated to InfoQube 109Pre6, the universal clipper stopped working, too.  Right now, I have no functioning clipper and have to do everything manually.

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It's working here with 109 pre6, but note there have been changes made -- see here -- and it was working differently for different people (it wasnt copying properly for some people -- see thread at that link).
 
I'd make sure the hotkey is still correctly applied.

Thanks, Tom.  I had a hot key conflict (I was missing the warning pop-up at the lower right).
 
It's better now.  Still doesn't capture the URL correctly (puts it in the HTML pane instead of the URL column) but I can live with that.
 
Wayne
 
Edit: it does work fully and correctly if I'm clipping text.  It's only when I'm linking to a webpage that it omits the URL.

Pierre_Admin

2018/07/26 23:27

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Edit: it does work fully and correctly if I'm clipping text.  It's only when I'm linking to a webpage that it omits the URL.
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This is the way it works. For the clipper to know the URL, it needs to have some content selected (or some HTML from that page in the clipboard)
 
Pierre_Admin
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WayneK

2018/07/27 11:51

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Pierre,
 
Yes, thanks.  I was comparing it to the Firefox addon where that wasn't necessary. 
 
You say some text has to be selected for the clipper to know the URL.  Yet it's able to paste the URL in the HTML pane without having text selected.  As a naive (ie clueless) user it seems like if it can capture the URL and put it in the HTML pane, it could put it in the URL field instead.  But no need to explain.  I'm sure there's a valid programming reason.
 
Wayne
 

Pierre_Admin

2018/07/27 12:27

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Yet it's able to paste the URL in the HTML pane without having text selected.  As a naive (ie clueless) user it seems like if it can capture the URL and put it in the HTML pane, it could put it in the URL field instead.  But no need to explain.  I'm sure there's a valid programming reason.
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I like your humor Wayne !
 
I'll try to reproduce it, as here it does not paste it in the HTML pane... 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

FWIW, here what happens when I use the universal clipper in Firefox (61.0.1 x64) without selecting any text :
  1. the title of the current webpage goes in the item field
  2. in the html pane goes whatever was last copied to the clipboard followed by clipping info e.g.
Clipped from: On: 2018-07-27 19:11:02 By: Tom
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Note there is no link in the html pane nor in the clipping info, nor in the URL field.

 
When I select text in the webpage, things pretty much work as expected:
  1. Title in item field
  2. URL in URL field
  3. Selected text in HTML pane
  4. (but no clipping info -- which doesnt bother me)

WayneK

2018/07/27 20:50

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OK, forget everything I said (generally good advice).  I agree with Tom's testing.  I'm ashamed to admit that the reason the link was showing up in the html pane was because I was manually copying it in anticipation of pasting it into the URL field.  I guess I was doing it so automatically that I wasn't making the connection, even after Pierre explained how it worked.
 
So it looks the closest thing to automating it is to select a little select in order to capture the URL, then erase the text in the html pane.
 
Wayne
 

Tom

2018/07/28 06:23

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What would be nice, would be some form of "save as bookmark" - one that would not necessarily require a browser extension would be even better.
Don't know if that even possible (?)