Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire A wizzy-what ?!! Content Management Is Easy With WYSIWIG Editors

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire WEB WYSIWYG Editors Providing content authors with HTML writing tools. When – Content Management Systems, Web based systems, Message boards. Why – limited budgets, common standards Editors - Client side tools –Client OS and Browser compatibility is an enormous issue. Function As Form Text areas Overview of 2 different kinds of editors –Flash Editors (EwebWP) –ActiveX (EwebeditPro)

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire EKTRON Why Ektron Editors –Stable Company –Excellent Support –Industry Leader –Excellent Documentation(user & developer) –Works well with ColdFusion –Great Architecture

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire EwebWP – (ABOUT) Flash Based (6) Cross Platform compatibility Produced by Ektron Easy Installation Light download for client $99 License

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire EwebWP – (FEATURES) Insert Files and Images Font Style/Alignment Style Sheet compatibility Cut/Copy/Paste

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire EwebeditWP – (INSTALLATION) Key Files –EwebWP.swf – Flash executable –EwebWPLicenseKey.txt – Key provided by Ektron –Ewebwp.cfm – Calls the Flash executable –FilesStored.xml – provides titles and paths to images and files for insert into content.

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire EwebeditWP – How it stacks up Advantages –Easy to Install –Excellent support from Ektron –Cross platform support Disadvantages –Image is not displayed in Editor –Limited ability to customize –Limited HTML Support (No Tables) –Limited Special Character/Foreign Character support

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro – (ABOUT) About Ewebeditpro Produced by Ektron - Requires a Windows OS for the client - ActiveX Control - A truer WYSIWG Editor - Generates xhtml - Highly Customizable - Strong CF support - $300 license

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro – (FEATURES) Image/File/hyperlink Insert Image Upload Module Stylesheet support Multilanguage Support Cleans Word Documents well Standard text editing features Supports Tables HTML view Spell Check

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro (INTEGRATION) Key Files –Config.xml- Controls the tool bar, paths –Ewebeditpro.cfm – Custom tag that calls editor, sets paths –ewebeditproevents.js – javasript processes Key Tables –Images table – controls images paths, properties –Extension_tbl table – used to control the types of files that can be uploaded.

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro (CUSTOMIZE TOOLBAR) Add new tools to the editor tool bar –Code for Config.xml Add A Link To An Adobe Document Add Link To An Adobe Document -Code for ewebeditproevents.js else if ("cmdadobe" == strCmdName) {window.open(eWebEditPro.parameters.path + 'adobe.cfm?editorName=' + escape(sEditorName), 'adobe', 'toolbar=0, location=0,directories=0,screenX=50, screenY=50, status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,hotkeys=1, resizable=1,width=500,height=250');}

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro (CUSTOMIZE STYLESHEET) Code for Config.xml -

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro (RETURNING VALUES TO THE EDITOR) Code for Adobe.cfm function inserthyperlink() { if (top.opener.closed){alert("Your hyperlink could not be inserted because the editor page has been closed."); }else if (document.frmHyperlinks.text2.value == ''){alert("Your hyperlink text is blank and would create an empty link."); } else{ var hyperlinkvalue; var pastevalue; var targetvalue; var targetvaluepaste targetvalue = ocument.frmHyperlinks.Target.options[document.frmHyperlinks.Target.selectedIndex].value; if (targetvalue == "") {targetvaluepaste = ""; } else {targetvaluepaste = "target=" + targetvalue; } hyperlinkvalue = document.frmHyperlinks.httpLink.value pastevalue = ' ' + document.frmHyperlinks.text2.value + ' '; top.opener.eWebEditPro[objQuery["editorName"]].pasteHTML(pastevalue); self.close(); }

Electronic Communications Unit Presenter: Michael McGuire Ewebeditpro – How it stacks up ActiveX –Heavy download –Serious compatibility issues –Very powerful additional functionality Excellent Support Highly customizable