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Full-featured RadEditor for MOSS 5.0

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Our RadEditor for MOSS product has reached version 5.0. There are some major changes that you should know before you upgrade from version 4.x. First and most important is that the 5.0 version uses RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX. The new editor offers many improvements over the previous RadEditor for ASP.NET, too many to list here. Check the product page for more details. This is a major upgrade and it means that you will need to have the WSS v3/MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1 and ASP.NET AJAX installed in your web farm.

 

The second important change is in the RadEditor features. There are still two features in the "Site Features" page, but their meaning is different. The first feature will activate the editor in all lists in the current site. In the new version this feature activates the editor for all browsers, while in 4.x we had a separate feature for Internet Explorer. The other feature will activate the editor for all publishing HTML fields on the site (WCM scenario). This is the same as using SharePoint designer to replace all editors in your publishing layouts, but it does not actually change the pages (i.e. the pages will still contain the original editor declaration - <PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField... />). It is up to the SharePoint developer to decide whether to replace the original editor with SharePoint designer, or using our feature.

 

Upgrading from version 4.x is a simple process. We have outlined the steps in the online documentation - http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/upgrade-instructions-from-v4-to-v5.html. Speaking of which, the documentation for the new editor has been moved in the main RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX help, so you can access it online from http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/moss-introduction.html.

 

The new RadEditor for MOSS 5.0 is available from the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX downloads page. Note that the LITE version of the editor has not been updated to 5.0. It will remain in the 4.x branch and will be updated only with bugfixes - no new features will be added to version 4.x.

Finally, you can see a simple page with the MOSS content editor web part on our SharePoint demo site - http://sharepoint.telerik.com/Products/RadControlsAjax/Pages/RadEditorfor.aspx

posted by: Stoyan Stratev

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Comments  2

  • 4 Jul, 08:33 PM

    I posted some questions in the Telerik community forum regarding the SharePoint site you've implemented. It looks like the Editor toolbar has been substantially reduced from that shown in the online demo section of your web site, does that indicate reduced functionality in the MOSS environment compared to, say a .NET one?

    Further, as the subject is RAD Editor, my user's main interest is to create rich Wikis and Blogs. Is RAD Editor able to replace the standard editor web part in Wiki and Blog libraries/templates (you did say the first Feature activates the RAD Editor in all lists but as these are difficult templates to work with I want to understand if any further developer intervention is required to make RAD the default)?

    comment by: Timothy
  • 18 Jul, 04:18 AM

    The RadEditor toolbar in MOSS has been designed to mimic the original rich text editor in MOSS 2007. However, the full RadEditor tools are also available if you wish to add extra functionality to your editor. You simply need to modify the editor's tools file and add new tools (see http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/removing-tools-from-toolbar.html for more information).

    Regarding your second question, the Wikis and Blogs features in MOSS 2007 are created using special lists. This means that the RadEditor will be available in those scenarios when you activate the lists feature. Note, that you will need to activate the editor on each site separately. If you want to activate it for a whole site collection, or even the entire SharePoint web application, you will need to change the feature scope - http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/change-the-radeditor-features-scope.html

    comment by: Stoyan Stratev
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