RadEditor in ListItems

[Morten Andreasen]

Hi All

I have enabled the "Use RAD Editor for listItems" feature for my site, however, when i try to edit properties for pages in my pages library, the default editor is shown.

How can that be? Do i have to enable the feature in my Site Template to get this to work?

[Lini]

Hello,

I assume that you are talking about basic pages, which are stored in document libraries. Unfortunately, we do not support this scenario with our editor with the current version. The editor for basic pages is not easily replaceable as you are not actually editing a field in a list.

Greetings,
Lini
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[JMW]

How does one customize the Editor for lists? For example, I have an Announcements web part and can see that RadEditor is enabled, but it's a very basic toolbar, unlike the toolbar I customized for the Content Editor. Is it possible to have the same advanced Editor for my Announcements?

EDIT: I think I have it... edit the ListToolsFile.xml file. Yes? So I made it just like my ToolsFile.xml, then did an iisrest, then tried to test it with an new Announcement, and...ERROR "An unexpected error has occurred"

Are there tools that make this fail for some lists?

[Lini]

Hello,

Indeed, the tools file for the list editor is called ListToolsFile.xml and you can customize it to change the appearance of the editor. However, you must have at least two toolbars inside it and make sure that they are called EnhancedToolbar and BasicToolbar. Some list items only support a basic set of HTML - e.g. no images, no tables, etc. In this case the editor will hide the EnhancedToolbar. Other list items support a wider variety of HTML tags, so the editor will show both the basic and the enhanced toolbars.

Here is an example of the list tools file:

<root>
<tools name="EnhancedToolbar" dockable="false" enabled="true">
...
</tools>
<tools name="BasicToolbar" dockable="false" enabled="true">
...
</tools>
<tools name="YourToolbar" dockable="false" enabled="true">
...
</tools>
<contextMenus>
  <contextMenu forElement="*">
    <tool name="Cut"/>
    <tool name="Copy"/>
    <tool name="Paste"/>
  </contextMenu>
</contextMenus>
</root>

Kind regards,
Lini
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[JMW]

Got it! Yes, after I enabled only basic tools it started to work again. Others should take note to make a copy of the .xml files OOTB so that it's easy to revert back to the default toolbars.