IS there any way to call a Html Editor Providers in ListX yet? I say the provider because I do not want to limit the website to just Free Text Box.

Also I think I have heard that you can now upload images. Is this in the documentation yet? Or maybe a working example?

Thanks
Rick

I've implemented TinyMCE from MoxieCode as have others here. This is a sample I have of how to insert FTB although I know nothing about implementing it

Your Form assuming a field name of comments:
<td style="width:100px;">Comments:</td><td>{texteditor,frmComments,"[Comments]"}</td>
Your submit:
<a href="javascript:FTB_API['frmComments'].StoreHtml();document.forms[0].submit();">Save</a>

the form replaced some of the tags. document.formsΎ]. should read
document.forms leftsqbrack 0 rightsqbrack

pauldes, have you been successful in getting TinyMCE to work with ajax?

nope

Is that all I need? Just paste that and it will show up? Will it use other text boxes besides free text box? I see that in the code above FTB?

Thanks
Rick

As far as the FreeTextBox goes, yes. The javascript and support files are already installed via DNN. You do also need to add the appropriate code to your page though.

<script type="text/javascript" src="[*LOCALHOSTALIAS]/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider/ftb3/FTB-Utility.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="[*LOCALHOSTALIAS]/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider/ftb3/FTB-FreeTextBox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="[*LOCALHOSTALIAS]/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider/ftb3/FTB-ToolbarItems.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="[*LOCALHOSTALIAS]/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider/ftb3/FTB-Pro.js"></script>

Since this is a hot topic, I would love it if the guys from Bi4ce would jump in and help us figure out some alternatives to the clunky FTB to work in conjunction with Ajax.

The only problem with this is we are not using the HTML Provider we are using FTB. This is what I was asking at the beginning. I know I can add in the reference to a HTML element. I just wanted to know if it can be done with ListX calls.

I have added a tab to demonstrate the use of tinyMCE through AJAX. For those of you not familiar with tinyMCE - it is a fantastic Rich Text Editor, similar to FreeTextBox and FCK, with a very small footprint.

The demonstration provides steps for using tinyMCE, and controlling exactly which TEXTAREA objects you want to enhance with tinyMCE.

Click Here to view the tinyMCE integration sample.

Now that is what I am talking about! Thanks a ton Kevin. You're a Gentleman and A Scholar.

Kevin, thank you for the post, however I still can't get it to work using your example. The TinyMCE texareas still revert to normal textareas when you change the value of an ajax-enabled drop-down list. The only way I was able to get it to sort of work was by changing the line:

if (tinyMCE.getInstanceById(items.id) == null)

to read simply: if (1==1)

to make the textarea initialize on every post regardless. However, it sometimes has unexpected results. Would you mind posting an XML code of a working ListX TinyMCE w/ Ajax example?

v/r,

Steve

Hmm - thats odd.. Let me take a look.

Kevin,
I was wondering if you were ever able to update your sample code? I am trying to Save Data and retrieve it and I am not seeing anything on in the RTE.

Here is the line I am using:
<textarea id="txtDescription" name="txtDescription" cols="40" rows="10" tinymce="true">[memDescription]</textarea>

I am setting my variable to:
<anyType xsi:type="QueryOptionItem">
<Index>0</Index>
<VariableType><Form></VariableType>
<QuerySource>txtDescription</QuerySource>
<QueryTarget>@txtDescription</QueryTarget>
<QueryTargetLeft>'</QueryTargetLeft>
<QueryTargetRight>'</QueryTargetRight>
<QueryTargetEmpty>NULL</QueryTargetEmpty>
<Protected>true</Protected>
<EscapeHTML>false</EscapeHTML>
<EscapeListX>2</EscapeListX>
</anyType>

Can you see anything that is wrong here?

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