SOA on iPad?

Feral_Moon

I've just completed my SOA on iPad but can't seem to copy & paste it into a thread here. Anyone know what I need to do please?

Feral_Moon

It's so annoying as all the information I input into the SOA form has now been lost because it has all deleted itself overnight.

sourcrates

Can be difficult to copy and paste on an iPad, do you have a PC ?

enthusiasticsaver

I have just done one on my iPad and there an option at the bottom to format it for MSE. It gives instructions on how to copy and paste it into a post.

Feral_Moon

It's the fact neither the "calculate" nor the "highlight text" buttons would work. And when I clicked on the MSE button it opened into another page so I left it open in my tabs to come back to today in the hope someone may have posted a solution, but when I opened the iPad this morning it was just a blank page.

I also clicked th "save data" button but have no idea where it has saved it to.

Feral_Moon

enthusiasticsaver wrote: »

I have just done one on my iPad and there an option at the bottom to format it for MSE. It gives instructions on how to copy and paste it into a post.

How did you copy it?

tempus_fugit

I just tried it and got as far as formatting it for MSE. This opens up the page with the text and code for pasting into here. But I tried to copy it by double-clicking to get the dialog up, and usually I would get an option to "Select All" and then copy it and paste into here, but there is no "Select All" option. Double-clicking selects a piece of the text, and ostensibly you should be able to drag the little blue "handles" to select all of the text, but it doesn't work. Every time I drag the handles it starts to work but then the selection disappears and you have to start again. It's even worse if not all of the text to be highlighted is visible in the text box. So it looks like doing this on an iPad is a non-starter. This was using Safari so I don't know if it would work better using another browser or if it is a failing of the iPad software itself.

Feral_Moon

tempus_fugit wrote: »

I just tried it and got as far as formatting it for MSE. This opens up the page with the text and code for pasting into here. But I tried to copy it by double-clicking to get the dialog up, and usually I would get an option to "Select All" and then copy it and paste into here, but there is no "Select All" option. Double-clicking selects a piece of the text, and ostensibly you should be able to drag the little blue "handles" to select all of the text, but it doesn't work. Every time I drag the handles it starts to work but then the selection disappears and you have to start again. It's even worse if not all of the text to be highlighted is visible in the text box. So it looks like doing this on an iPad is a non-starter. This was using Safari so I don't know if it would work better using another browser or if it is a failing of the iPad software itself.

This is exactly the problem I have. I'm using Chrome but also tried Safari in case it was a browser problem but it was no different.

Puddylove

I tried too - but never succeeded.

vaper

I managed it on an iPad. I uploaded it to the forum but then had to keep editing it as bits were missing so think it would be easier to just type it into the forum yourself.
Sorry this isn't much help is it.