Amy's Sitecore Adventures!

Developers often push aside the rich text editor because we would rather of use separate components with data sources. However, sometimes we need to rely on the rich text editor to empower the content editor to edit more directly or to reduce complexity on the page. We can use snippets to reduce complexity or give the editor more options by inserting some predefined HTML into the rich text editor. In this example, we will learn how to get more out of the rich text editor by changing which editor we use, adding new snippets, and styling the added content. First we need to switch from the default basic rich text editor to either one of the other existing editors or to a custom editor. The Rich Text Default view - just the basics: We can change the default editor on a field-by-field basis. Update the Source Property for the Rich Text field so that it references the specific rich text editor we want to use in the core database: On your template, enter the item path for the ...

When it rains it pours… I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had a chance to update this as much as I’d like! However, here’s a little tidbit that I struggled with before learning the better way of doing it through Sitecore training: how to make the rich text editor a bit snazzier! This is well documented in the Sitecore documentation and elsewhere, but I always forget where so this post is definitely for my own benefit (and anyone else like me who doesn’t know where to look right away). There are two ways of changing around the rich text editor that I’ll cover, I’ll start with the easier one: 1. Setting the source property for the rich text field on your template I was pretty thrilled to learn this, just go into your content editor or template manager, open up the template with the rich text field that you want to set this for and choose one of the following options as the source (in italics ). Rich Text Default: /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Default T...