adding cstom dropdown to editor toolbar

[Sarah]

I want to add a dropdown for tokens to a radeditor.  However, when I do this

<telerik:RadEditor runat="server" ID="BodyEditor" >
                    <Tools>
                        <telerik:EditorToolGroup>
                             <telerik:EditorDropDown Name="Tokens" Text="Tokens">
                             </telerik:EditorDropDown>
                        </telerik:EditorToolGroup>
                    </Tools>
                    <Content>
                    </Content>
                </telerik:RadEditor>

the formatting toolbar and others no longer appears.  I only want to add my custom dropdown, not replace the default toolbar.

[Sarah]

anyone who could help?

[Rumen]

Hello Sarah,

When you set the tools collection the editor's toolbar is reset and you should manually declare all tools that you want to appear on the toolbar.

If you do not like this behavior, you can

1) add programmatically the custom dropdown via the codebehind, e.g.

BodyEditor.EnsureToolsFileLoaded(); //execute this method to load the default tools set


//add a new Toolbar dynamically   

EditorToolGroup dynamicToolbar = new EditorToolGroup();

BodyEditor.Tools.Add(dynamicToolbar);

 

//add a custom dropdown and set its items and dimension attributes   

EditorDropDown ddn = new EditorDropDown("Tokens");

ddn.Text = "Tokens";

 

//Add items   

ddn.Items.Add("Tokens", "Tokens");

ddn.Items.Add("Tokens", "Tokens");

ddn.Items.Add("Tokens", "Tokens");

 

//Add tool to toolbar   

dynamicToolbar.Tools.Add(ddn);

or via the toolsfile.xml file:

<tool name="Tokens" type="dropdown">
    <item  name="Tokens"  value="Tokens"  />
    <item  name="Tokens"  value="Tokens"  />
    <item  name="Tokens"  value="Tokens"  />
</tool>

You can download the default toolsfile.xml file from the following KB article: Default ToolsFile.xml file of RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX and add the above dropdown declaration to one of the tools tags.

All the best,
Rumen
the Telerik team