Radiopaedia Blog: New feature

Over the next week we will be releasing a few relatively minor features, as we continue to work on much larger back end and front end features due next month. 

The current releases will include: 

1. Font / Style layout of cases will be updated to match that of articles, with improved typography (Google Open Sans / larger font size) to make reading easier. 
2. Relatively recently we implemented completion tracking on playlists you view. Currently this is mostly a back-end feature, but we will be releasing a small perk: when you complete a playlist while logged in, you will have the option to receive an official "you have completed this playlist on [date/time]" email. 
3. Since we created draft mode and therefore split the create / publish date into two, our 'recently created cases' list made no sense on the home page. This has been updated to "Published" and the dates are correct. We will be adding the ability to filter cases by published date as well as created date soon. 
4. For moderators - "pushed back to draft mode" status will be visible next to the thumbs up / down column. 

Many many more on the way :) 

Cheers, Frank

Sometimes you just don't have the time to finish a case straight away. You may be interrupted, or need to chase histology or you just run out of time. Now when you create a case it will start off in 'Draft Mode' which means you can take your time making it just right before publishing it (draft mode will be rolled out over the next week). 

When a case is in draft mode only you can see it, and it won't be pushed to the moderation cue until you publish it. You won't be able to add it to playlists or articles or share it until you publish it however. 

Your draft cases will be accessible to you from your user page and from the top of the header. 

To publish a case, just go back into edit mode and click "Save and Publish". 

So that we don't end up with a huge number of unfinished essentially 'private' cases, there will be a limit to the number of draft cases you can have at any one time. Currently this will be set to 25 per user, but we will monitor usage and may adjust this over time. 

We hope this will result in higher quality cases. 

As always please let us know what you think of this new feature and report any bugs you may find. 

Cheers, Frank

Video clips has not formed a huge part of Radiopaedia.org to date, however in the setting of ultrasound, cardiac studies and some other dynamic studies, they are essential. 

Recently we upgraded our video support to improve loading times and to ensure that they project well in both view and quiz mode. More improvements are clearly possible, and will be carried out in due course :) 

We are looking forward to many more obstetric cases in the near future. 

As a taste, please have a look at some of Dr Cathy Culvers cases. 

Currently the video must be in MP4 format, H.264 encoded. If your video is not in that format already, then there are many utilities to convert them, including  Evom. 

Help page: Video

We start the new year with a few small features / improvements, before we get stuck into some bigger feature sets. 

Ability to delete your own cases

Until now, users have been unable to delete thier own cases, which is crazy but was legacy of when we only had a few cases instead of over 16,000! 

Go to 'view mode' from 'quiz mode'

This is mostly one for editors. When viewing a case in quiz mode I often find myself wanting to pop into view mode, so that I can edit the case. Now you can. Just click the case ID at the bottom of the screen. 

Donation page added to footer

For those of you who want to help us out we have made our donation page available in the footer.  

After having trialed a new text editor in a number of places in the site, we have finally released it site-wide. 

This is a huge improvement from our previous editor which is no longer being developed and it should make the process of editing articles and case easier. 

All the same funcitons are there. 

Please let us know if you run into any problems, by writting to [email protected] or leaving us a comment via the feeback tab on the right.