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On-Line Editors

On-Line editors are very useful when you need rich content trough the web being edited by your customers. There are a lot of them with a lot of features included in each one. Just a few include a DNN provider, but the provider model in DNN is so simple and it is not difficult to implement your own. Some links I remember:

	FCKEditor Great features, support for many browsers
	FreeTextBox The standar DNN editor
	HTMLArea Another good editor. I have not tested it yet
	Telerik R.A.D. Editor A good editor. Includes DNN provider

FCKEditor Provider

The FCKEditor provider is still in experimental phase. The abilities of this on-line editor are many and varied. At the moment the provider supports the following features:

Can be used like any other editor provider.
Pre-defined templates for toolbar bars
A new image gallery that lets user select objects the same way standard DNN editor does (FTB)
A links gallery was implemented to let users select links by using the URL control already built in DNN
Macromedia flash gallery
Properties can be set by instance, module or site

I will ask you to send any possible information about running the provider in different environments and browsers.

Discuss in forums

Download FCKEditor Provider

The provider created by this site has become a real success and now to guaranty its fredom, it has become a DotNetNuke project. The project now has its own page at DotNetNuke

This page will be kept because it is planned to create some add-ons for your provider

	FCKeditor provider download page
	FCKeditor provider project page

Module History

2006/jan/15 (02.00.03)

Fixed: Lot of bugs with galleries and provider itself
Added: Now FCKEditor 2.2 is used
Fixed: Some bugs in gallery templates
Changed: Toolbar roles setup

2005/dec/06 (02.00.02) (Last test version)

Fixed: Problems with uploading images
Added: Completed gallery skinning (Pending for links gallery)
Added: Support for css styles dropdownlist and editor area css
Added: Support full images path

2005/oct/26 (02.00.01) (Test version)

Fixed: Some minor bugs
Changed: The way popup windows for galleries are opened

2005/oct/25 (02.00.00) (Test version)

Upgrade: Now FCKEditor 2.1.1 is used (Compiled under DNN 3.1.1)
Added: Support for customization per instance, per module and per portal.
Added: Simple support for localized templates for image, flash and link gallery (Need improvement)
Added: Support for the new flash gallery and the quick upload
Added: Now image, flash and link galleries include your page .css files
Added: Support for <code> ... </code> and others
Added: Support to show your DNN .css classes in the styles dropdownlist

2005/may/15 (01.00.04)

Upgrade: Now uses FCKEditor 2.0 FC instead of RC3
Fixed: BUG on the original fck_startup.js showing an error when postback

2005/may/13 (01.00.03)

Fixed: Image gallery allowing upload in everyfolder after one folder with write permissions is found (Thanks to Jorge B.)

2005/may/12 (01.00.02)

Fixed: Problems with \ in the image gallery (thanks to Shawn Benson)

2005/may/08 (01.00.01)

Fixed: Image gallery repeat subfolder
Fixed: Problem with isauthenticated value (windows.open)
Added: Support for upload (DNN roles)
added: support for a provider paramenter "InDebugMode" that allows user to see debug information for image gallery

2005/may/05 (01.00.00)

Initial release

I developed a module to allow people to create packages and scripts to install an editor provider without file system access

You can learn more here

If you want to contribute, do it please.

Here you have some useful information:

Only works in DNN 3.x
It was compiled against DNN3.2.0
Tested under DNN.4.0
Uses FKCEditor 2.1.1
Support for uploads
Custom settings per instance (toolbar, skins)
includes image, link and macromedia flash galleries

From the beginning, I liked so much how FCKEditor handles tables. When I decided to create the provider, I discovered the great capacity of this component to adapt to the needs of diffeerent programming languages and platforms. I think that it is a great working tool and easy to use, although I need much to learn of it. I hope that with the aid of you it can also become a useful component for our loved DNN.