Last week Dave Pearson and I had a hacking session and came up with a bookmarklet you can use to put a handy link in your browser bookmarks, so if you’re looking at the public display of one of your works, this will switch to the edit view of the same.

Textile doesn’t allow us to make links to javascript so I’ve put it up on a separate page, here: edit view bookmarklet

This doesn’t require Greasemonkey or any particular browser; it should suffice to drag the link to your bookmarks in Firefox, Safari or IE and it’ll work.

And for those who do use Firefox and Greasemonkey, there’s this approach which places a edit facility in a work’s action list (albeit it with an issue or two).

Version 0.2 of the Greasemonkey approach is now available. This fixes a small issue with attempts to edit a work when you got to it via activity links.

Version 0.3 of the Greasemonkey approach is now available. This fixes a long-standing annoyance where the “Edit” link would appear for all works on RedBubble, even other people’s. I’ve now modified the code so that the “Edit” link will only appear on your own works.

Awesome work on this guys!!! It’s a really handy thing to have and saves so much hassles!!! Well done!!!

I so love this hack thank you saves a hell of a lot of clicking

Version 0.4 of the Greasemonkey approach is now available. This fixes what appears to be a recent clash between the code and a change at RedBubble.

Version 0.5 of the Greasemonkey approach is now available. This simply contains a small cosmetic change to handle a change RedBubble made in the last 24 hours.

Version 0.6 of the Greasemonkey approach is now available. This fixes a problem introduced by today’s RedBubble Thursday. Note that the same problem affected the public view tab hack and that a new version of that has been released too.

Version 0.7 of the Greasemonkey approach is now available. This version fixes a long-standing bug.