Description of problem: If you create a draft journal post but don’t publish it, and instead save it, when you try to go back to the posts area you get a 404 not found error:
when clicked on:
Step 3: At the top of the page, click the Back to post button.
Step 4: Error page
This is happening because the back button is linked to go to the published post, and it’s not expecting you to not have published it. I propose changing the button to take you back to the project’s journal posts, or your list of posts if you are just creating it for yourself.
I haven’t been getting an error page when doing this with either my personal journal or a collection project journal, although I admit the page I am taken to is kinda confusing:
if you highlight over the back link, what is that URL for the link?
(they should be almost the same, except there should be an extra /edit at the end of the URL in #1. theoretically, you could modify the URL in #1 by deleting /edit, and that should effectively take you back, too.)
ok, extra info here for context.
I am owner of the project and originally created the post, saved as draft unpublished. Then Zachary (project admin) edited the post and encountered this issue. Project here, it’s a work in progress lol
editing to add:
the back button works fine for me.
After I save the draft, the link is the same as it was when I was editing it. If I highlight over the back link, no url shows. If I click on the back link, it takes me to https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/49842-faq-maintenance
I guess so? Back in the first IDathon Amy and I discovered some other unexpected/undesired happenings connected to admins’ editing each others’ draft posts so I would not be surprised the code determining how that all works is not super… polished.
I made my first journal post recently (was for me not a project but whatever). I was confused when I clicked the back button, because yes, it looked like it had published when it was just a draft. But that was the only problem I had.
