[Solved] Links and Usability

[Peter Zolja]

Scenario: Make a download link to test.doc from the document manager and call it "test link"

1) Using the document manager and selecting a file in the document properties there should be an option to let them specify what the link should say (link text).
2) Since they don't have this option they try to modify the link text. When doing this it's very easy to remove the actual link tag (turns into text). This is very unfriendly.
3) When over the link I get URL, tooltip, etc at the bottom. This means absolutely nothing for the average user -- and it's not intuitive to click the hyperlink manager; any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Rumen]

Hello Peter,

Thank you for your feature request. I logged it in our ToDo list for consideration and I updated your Telerik points.

My suggestion is to use the solution below which pops up a browser prompt window which invites the users to specify the inserted document link name:

<script type="text/javascript">
function OnClientPasteHtml(sender, args)
{
    var commandName = args.get_commandName();
    var value = args.get_value();

    if (commandName == "DocumentManager")
    {
        var div = document.createElement("DIV");

        //Do not use div.innerHTML as in IE this would cause the image's src or the link's href to be converted to absolute path.
        //This is a severe IE quirk.
        Telerik.Web.UI.Editor.Utils.setElementInnerHtml(div,value);

        //Now check if there is alt attribute
        var link = div.firstChild;
        //debugger;
        var alt = prompt("Please specify the desired document name", "");
        link.innerHTML = alt;
       
        //Set new content to be pasted into the editor
        args.set_value(div.innerHTML);
    }
}
</script>
<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1" OnClientPasteHtml="OnClientPasteHtml">   
    <DocumentManager ViewPaths="~/" UploadPaths="~/" />
</telerik:radeditor>  

The solution is based on the following online example: OnClientPasteHtml.


Best regards,
Rumen
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[Peter Zolja]

The actual link (anchor) is generated by the document manager (not pasted) -- wanted to make sure I explained it properly :)

[Rumen]

Sure, the provided code asks the user to set the desired document link name directly after pressing the Insert button of the Document manager.


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Rumen
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