Uploading PDF Documents Broken - at least on my Tablet

Started by Private User on Thursday, June 10, 2021
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I have been using the same Tablet since November. I learned how to download pdf files and jpg files to my Tablet and then upload them to Geni as Documents. This was working fine, no problem.
Then suddenly the uploading part changed and in addition to being annoyingly different, it is no longer possible to upload pdf files.

I was thinking something went wrong with my Tablet, but now I see https://www.geni.com/blog/new-improvements-to-sources-on-mobile-dev... dated June 9, so I know the changes are due to changes Geni made.

Mike Stangel - Please fix so I can upload PDF Files again.
If a web page is a PDF, my Tablet downloads it, so I cannot use Capture, have to upload the PDF - but suddenly I cannot do that!!
That is major!! The rest below is not major, but ....

In that documentation - The image accompanying "Simply tap “Choose File” and select the option to take a photo."
Is nothing like what I see on my Tablet now -- what I see now is lots and lots of much smaller images than I used to see, so much harder to identify the one I want to be uploading. And no PDFs included.
"Browse" is upper left.
If I click Browse, then I get perhaps what I used to see, with PDFs included but they appear washed out and cannot be chosen.
with at the top 3 lines (indicating menu) and the word Documents.
If I click the menu bars, I get a side panel labelled "Open From" - first set is images and recent -- next set is Downloads and Drive -- third and final set is Gallery - Drive - Photos. No picture of a Camera, no words "Camera" or "Take Photo"
Before these changes, I could take a photo and then upload it from my gallery or photos if I had wanted to.
As far as I can tell, that is still the case, but it is more of a pain now.

Now "Capture a Webpage" and "Create a Document" both broken also.

I used "Capture a Webpage" fine on June 9. Now I click it and do not go to the next screen where I can post the link.

I am on a 10 inch Android Tablet using Chrome.
Is it working for others on other devices or ??

Private User we've pushed a fix.

Mike Stangel - Thanks, but now Please fix "Capture a Webpage"! Capture a Webpage and Create a Document are not working at all on my 10" Android Tablet.
And maybe finish fixing Uploading PDFs.
I was able to upload a PDF, but had to refresh page to be told it had uploaded, then go to it to edit.
-- and now to edit top line of a Document's info, have to have Tablet in vertical orientation when click "edit", if do while horizontal it still disappears upwards and - new - cannot get to left side if rotate from horizontal).

I keep finding more that is broken, so have created https://www.geni.com/discussions/232451

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