What is needed is an eazy-to-use 'share on sitename.com' button

External Voting Button would be cool sometime in the future, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Here's what my users say:
1) We are very lazy & we have very little time!
2) we are so lazy that we can't be asked to...
a) come to your website
b) click on the "submit" button
c) fill in 6 forms (URL, Title, Body, Category, Tag, etc)

in short, the success of any drigg site depends a LOT on how frequently content is added, and, therefore, on how easy it is to add content.

What users want to see is a fast and efficient content submission process. Like this:
1) they drag-&-drop a "share on example.com" bookmarklet on their own browzer toolbar.
2) whenever they surf the web, when they find content that they wish to share on example.com, all they they have to do is click on that bookmarklet button which is now on their browser toolbar.
3) After that they will be brought to new window of the example.com/submit with automatically prepopulated
a) URL form -- with the url of the external story that they wish to add
b) story title -- with the actual title of that external story
c) story description -- with the body content of that external story

4) so all that the lazy web2.0 users will need to do now is just check that everything is correct, choose a Category and a Tag ... and click the "submit" button...
5) that's it...

in effect, content can be submitted with as little as 2 clicks. And believe me, in this day-and-age , the users are uber-lazy!!!

I've searched drupal, and there seem to be many of there javascript "bookmarklets" available. For example:
http://drupal.org/node/151217
http://drupal.org/node/84652
http://www.tejasa.com/bookmarklet

(you can just google search the words "drupal bookmarklet")

it looks like there is a Prepopulate module http://drupal.org/project/prepopulate that can be made to work with drigg.

Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer. I just throw this idea on the table because I believe that any drigg website will benefit from such an eazy-to-use button. And this suggestion is based on what *many* of my users have said.

I don't think it's too much effort for anybody who knows what they're doing. If anybody can develop something like this *please* post it here, so that other drigg users benefit at well.

hi,
I've been experimenting with bookmarklets ... Prepopulate module makes it really easy.

Theoretically speaking, there should be no reason for the story's description [body] not to be prepopulated too. The ReadMe Usage file of the Prepopulate module claims that prepopulating the Body field is posible by adding the [body_filter][body] because...

Body fields are different. Though their HTML entity looks like this:

<textarea id="edit-body" class="form-textarea resizable processed"
  name="body" rows="20" cols="60"/>

You can't just take the name "body," throw it into a edit[body] and
expect it to work. Drupal wraps the body field into a "body_filter"
array when it gets processed.

so far I've got URL and Title being prefilled with the help of the Prepopulate module and the following code:

<a href="javascript:u=document.location.href;t=document.title;s=window.getSelection();void(window.open(%22http://example.com/node/add/drigg?edit[title]=%22+escape(t)+'&edit[body]='+escape(s)+'&edit[url]='+escape(u),'_blank','width=1024,height=500,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes'));">share on example.com</a>

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Also....

I've found the following code to work for URL & Title even without the Prepopulate moule:

<a href="javascript:w=window;d=document;a=encodeURIComponent(d.location.href);t=encodeURIComponent(d.title);if(w.getSelection){s=w.getSelection();}else%20if(document.getSelection){s=document.getSelection();}else%20if(document.selection)%20{s=d.selection.createRange().text;}else{s='';};void(w.open('http://example.com/node/add/drigg?&title='+t+'&url='+a+'&edit[body]='+s,%20null,'modal=0,status=1,scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,width=730,height=500'));">share on rigg.org</a>

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... now we need to find a way for the *story's description* to be scooped as well. If I'm not mistaken the array for that is [body] ... so now we need to figure out how to prepopulate that...

(sorry, if this came out as a "diary" entry ... I hope it helps the drigg community in the future)

for what it's worth, this seems to be the Facebook's code for that button. Hope it helps in constructing the drigg bookmarklet.

<div id="share_button" class="sidecolumn_module"><div id="share_button_dialog">

<a href="javascript:var d=document,f='http://www.facebook.com/share',l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,p='.php?src=bm&v=4&i=1206171330&u='+e(l.href)+'&t='+e(d.title);1;try{if (!/^(.*\.)?facebook\.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))throw(0);share_internal_bookmarklet(p)}catch(z) {a=function() {if (!window.open(f+'r'+p,'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=0,width=626,height=436'))l.href=f+p};if (/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a,0);else{a()}}void(0)" onclick="aiert('Drag this button to your Bookmarks Bar.'); return false;" class="share_button_browser_link" title="Drag this link to your Bookmarks Bar. Click to learn more."><div class="share_button_browser share_button_ff_win"><div><div><div><div>Share on Facebook</div></div></div></div></div></a>

<p>Drag the button above to your Bookmarks Bar to quickly share content with your friends.</p><p><a href="/share_options.php">More details &#187;</a></p></div></div>

an update:

I use the following code

<a href="javascript:w=window;d=document;a=encodeURIComponent(d.location.href);t=encodeURIComponent(d.title);if(w.getSelection){s=w.getSelection();}else%20if(document.getSelection){s=document.getSelection();}else%20if(document.selection)%20{s=d.selection.createRange().text;}else{s='';};void(w.open('http://example.com/node/add/drigg?&title='+t+'&url='+a+'&edit[body]='+s,%20null,'modal=0,status=1,scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,width=730,height=500'));">share on drigg-example.org</a>
It works even without the Prepopulate module

I still can't get the Scoop Description to prepopulate with external article's body text. I know there is a way cause I've seen it done on many drupal sites. If anybody can help, please write here.

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Also problem with the above code is that when clicked in Firefox the popup window will appear behind the current window (not very user-friendly). It seems like a little setTimeout command will set it right, but I can't get it to work. The following article explains this in a little more detail http://javascript.weblogsinc.com/2005/04/04/firefox-bookmarklets-and-hid...

If anyone can write a better Bookmarklet code , please share it with us -- the lesser mortals.