I’ve only recently started using WebYep, creating a site for the MA
Publishing course at the London College of Communication. WebYep is
damn clever, and Max’s WebYep action suite is astounding. Worth every
penny if you want a no-fuss, client-editable set of pages!
What I’m wondering is if there’s a way for someone to produce
formatted text without having to hand-type markup snippets. Could
TinyMCE or something similar be integrated in some way? Something
like the most basic web forum formatting buttons in a WebYep text
entry window would be marvellous!
But I do have to say that even without this it is really great. I’ve
told my colleagues that they can dive in and start adding text and
image content all they like… while I carry on tweaking the layout
in Freeway. (Don’t worry Max, I won’t be removing or renaming any
WebYep items. 
k
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Keith,
Download the latest TinyMCE and pop it into the “opt” folder in the WebYep program folder and create a RichText Webyep item.
You do need to fiddle around a little creating a stylesheet just for that Richtext item, otherwise WebYep takes some of Freeway styles and puts them in TinyMCE.
When you get deeper, you realise WebYep can edit lots of other stuff like Keywords, Page Title, Description, form fields, payment buttons…
David
On 26 Jun 2008, at 09:40, Keith Martin wrote:
Could
TinyMCE or something similar be integrated in some way?
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RTE works well also. I like RTE a little better because it is lacking options that have nothing to do with text formatting that TinyMCE includes. RTE gives the client less opportunity to screw things up.
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Sometime around 26/6/08 (at 12:55 +0100) David Owen said:
Download the latest TinyMCE and pop it into the “opt” folder in the
WebYep program folder and create a RichText Webyep item.
Have done. And it is totally awesome! Thanks, this is totally brilliant.
You do need to fiddle around a little creating a stylesheet just for
that Richtext item, otherwise WebYep takes some of Freeway styles
and puts them in TinyMCE.
Could you perhaps elaborate a little on this?
I’ll probably not be able to follow up for a few days, but I’ll
definitely look forward to reading more about this.
(I’m heading off to Glastonbury at dawn as I’ve been invited to shoot
panoramas at the festival. Which is very cool indeed.
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Simply put; You can create your own style sheets that TinyMCE can pick up on and list for the user. There is an option in the action window to specify a non standard style sheet.
You can also use FCKeditor, which has more features, and even file uploads for placing photos in the editable area. Or as chuckamuck pointed the much simpler RTE.
It all comes down to how much devastation you wish the the user to create to your carefully prepared layout.
David
On 26 Jun 2008, at 20:22, Keith Martin wrote:
You do need to fiddle around a little creating a stylesheet just for
that Richtext item, otherwise WebYep takes some of Freeway styles
and puts them in TinyMCE.
Could you perhaps elaborate a little on this?
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Hi Keith
Glad your getting on with it so well and looking at the reply there is not much I can add.
Apart from if you want to tinker with the tinyMCE editor you can get it to handle images too
if you look at:
http://www.belvedere.uk.com/articles.php?WEBYEP_DI=3
you will see there is an image in the article and this whole article is a richtext item.
There is a way to reduce the amount of choices in tinyMCE by changing 1 setting so if people are interested let me know.
speak soon max
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Which setting is that?
On 28 Jun 2008, at 11:14 am, max wrote:
There is a way to reduce the amount of choices in tinyMCE by changing 1 setting so if people are interested let me know.
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Hi David and any one else who is interested
if you want to restrict the tinyMCE editor to just a simple WYSIWYG editor then you need to do this: (please be aware this would effect all the richtext items that were on that webyep system)
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open the program folder which resides in your webyep-system folder
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open the editor folder and you should see 10 items one of which should be: rich-text-tinymce.php
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create a copy of the rich-text-tinymce.php document and keep it as a backup
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then open the original rich-text-tinymce.php with a text editor, ideally one which can show line numbers on the left hand side though if yours doesn’t it doesnt matter. Then look down to line 72. If you are having problems finding the line just use find in your text editor and type theme : and it should jump to the right line.
It should say :
theme : "advanced",
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now change that to
theme : "simple",
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now save the file and that’s it the result will be that tinyMCE will have a basic editor. A bit like long text but with buttons.
I have put in a request to OBD to have multiple configs/inits supported so you could have basic and advanced themes working on the same site by just attaching a class to the specific div within Freeway and in that way you could change restrict the user from one to another which would be really handy.
I hope this is useful to people max.
one other thing remember that if you upgrade your webyep system to a new one you will need to do this again to the new editor.
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Sometime around 28/6/08 (at 13:58 -0400) max said:
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now change that to
theme : “simple”,
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now save the file and that’s it the result will be that tinyMCE
will have a basic editor. A bit like long text but with buttons.
Dang, that’s so simple! Thanks Max, I’ll try that later today, if I
can manage to clear the backlog of stuff I have to sort out. Ace.
I have put in a request to OBD to have multiple configs/inits
supported so you could have basic and advanced themes working on the
same site by just attaching a class to the specific div within
Freeway and in that way you could change restrict the user from one
to another which would be really handy.
Handy is something of an understatement! That sounds like a superb idea.
k (tired from Glastonbury)
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