# In place editing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editing/67388>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [September 3, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editing/67388 "2006-09-03T12:42:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editing/67388/1 "2006-09-03T12:42:04Z")

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Hi. I’m very glad to see that there is a ROR based CMS project now !

Are there any plans to add (ajax based) in place editing to Radiant ?  
From a first look it should not be too difficult to turn a page block  
into its source code (e.g. Textile), edit it in place and write it back.  
This way the block content could be changed very easily without going to  
the admin area. It might not be necessary to edit all page properties in  
place. For things like the layout or the behaviour one could still  
change to the admin area.  
If nobody else is working on this topic I might check it out.

Martin

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**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editing/67388/2 "2006-09-04T15:23:22Z")

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Martin wrote:

> Are there any plans to add (ajax based) in place editing to Radiant ?
> 
> > From a first look it should not be too difficult to turn a page block  
> > into its source code (e.g. Textile), edit it in place and write it back.  
> > This way the block content could be changed very easily without going to  
> > the admin area. It might not be necessary to edit all page properties in  
> > place. For things like the layout or the behaviour one could still  
> > change to the admin area.  
> > If nobody else is working on this topic I might check it out.

No one is working on this at the moment. It may be possible to create a  
radius tag that will allow you to do this.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)