Blog Editor setting in Site Settings

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9/17/2012 11:46:24 AM
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Blog Editor setting in Site Settings

It would be great to have a 'Blog Editor' setting on the 'General tab' in 'Site Settings'.  There currently is one for 'Content Editor' and 'Newsletter Editor'.  This would be highly valuable to us as we've been using the TextArea for our Html Content modules and would still like to use TinyMCE for our Blog modules.

9/17/2012 11:56:34 AM
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Re: Blog Editor setting in Site Settings

I don't like to add blog settings in site settings because blog is not a core feature, it is shipped with mojoPortal but is part of the mojoPortal.Features set of projects. The core has no dependency on features, features depend on the core. Html and Newsletter are both part of the core projects. The main reason we have a separate setting for Newsletter is because html for email is so different than html for web content and it requires the full html page markup whereas content features only edit html fragments.

Note that you can set it to TinyMCE as the editor in Site Settings then in the settings for Html Content we have a setting to force a plain text area. The only down side is you have to enable that setting per instance of Html content.

Hope that helps,

Joe

9/17/2012 12:23:30 PM
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Re: Blog Editor setting in Site Settings

That's great!  I didn't see that setting in the version we are running, so seems like it might be a good time to update for us.

Once we've done our update, perhaps we can set the defaultValue="false" for UseWysiwygEditor in the HtmlContentModule.config file in order to change the default value for any new module instances moving forward?  As far as the existing module instances, maybe run a database update script on the 'SettingValue' column in the 'mp_ModuleSettings' table where SettingName = 'UseWysiwygEditor' and set it equal to true?  Do you think that would work?

Thanks for your help Joe!

9/17/2012 12:45:25 PM
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Re: Blog Editor setting in Site Settings

Yes, that should work changing it in the config file then visit the setup page can change the default for new instances, but you will have to maintain that after future upgrades.

Best,

Joe

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