New Editor (redactor) On Admin Bugs List

Thank you for your feedback, these issues will be fixed in our upcoming release.

I am not sure this is the "right" place to publish this, because the "problems" I have with the new editor is not exactly bugs, more lack of functions compared to the old one.

But i thought it would be better to put this in one place, instead of spreading it all over the forum? If it is not the case, i apologize

1. Will there be a "paste plain text" in the new editor, I use this feature often so I don't need to remove the formatting from text before pasting it into BC.

I also recommend it to a lot of clients who try to paste in text with all sorts of formatting.

2. The new "inser image" dialog is really nice. I like the previews and i know that our clients will like it as well, but will there be a option to switch to a "file overview" instead.

Some times it will be a lot easier to find a picture from the filename, instead of browsing through the pictures.

3. Is "Image properties" removed in the new editor? I found it useful for floating pictures left/right, resizing to a specific width etc. I can do this in the html fairly easily,

but i found the other way quicker.

4. Much the same with the "Insert link" tool. I can't find "target". Is this gone also? Yes i can do this directly in the HTML, but in some situations i think this is a lot easier.

In general I think the new editor is great, and I think it will be even better, but i think some of the tools has been simplified a bit to much.

I am aware that this is a whole new editor, and I think it is great with all these new features, but i am a bit sad to see some of the old ones go.

Maybe a lot of my problems i've put here can be solved in other ways, if that is the case I would love to know

Hey GenieCorp

1. You do not need paste as plain text. Paste from word. Go on, do it. The editor is so good, the code is so clean!

2. You can click and resize and etc. BC have done a great job with the fact that when you do it creates a thumbnail generation code so you have optimised images.

Hi,

Compared to the old editor the new editor has some missing features. For others, the same result is obtained differently. So, let's take these one by one:

1. Paste as plain text - the old editor had a series of buttons which you had to press in order to do that. The new editor will have a setting in partner portal and then we'll just paste clean text
2. Glad you like the new insert image dialog; having a file view will probably not be there quite soon. An idea could be to have a search to help you limit the results, but no promises
3. Image properties
   1. alignment - we plan to do these from the toolbar buttons already existing
   2. resize - just drag the image and we'll create a thumbnail for the image
   3. alt text - we'll update the UI
4. Insert link tool - we'll update the UI to add target

Regards,

Cristinel

Crisitnel have you got note of the other bugs with the editor from the other thread or do you wish them to be put in this one?

Hi Christinel

1. This sounds great, I have no need for the "old" buttons. If it always paste as plain text, that is the best solution I could ever have wished for, also for our clients

2. Ok. The search field would be nice, it would be easier if you were looking for a specific picture instead of browsing through them all.

3. Overall sounds great. I like the "drag" function with resizing, especcially for our clients, but most of the times if i resize pictures i want to have a specific px. width for example.

But no worries, i can do this in the HTML. Our clients will love the "drag" feature.

4. Great, thanks!

I hope I didn't come across as being against the new editor, overall i think it improves a lot of things, especially the "Full screen" feature, and the new HTML editor is fantastic

Thx, for the fast reponse (also to you Liam)

Hi Liam,

The bug list thread has some reports especially with bugs related to selection, applying formatting and so on. I think they could stay there pretty well. The ones above are more feature missing rather than bugs. I remember you've also requested to include some of redactor's plug-ins. We need to see what kind of licence they have and if they can be included.

Cristinel

Nope, but in the same time don't want to duplicate content. We're following all discussions.

Cristinel

Yes this spacing after a url is playing havoc with our clients as well.