Editor Configurations

An Editor Configuration is a configuration detailing which editor plugin and buttons to use when showing a rich-text editor – e.g. when using the forum app, when creating page content, and so on (Figure 1.1).

Figure 1.1 An editor with the default editor configuration

Dynamicweb ships with a default configuration using CKEditor4 – but it’s easy to create and apply custom configurations. This is typically relevant when you want to remove complexity from the editor – as you can see in the screenshot above, the default editor configuration contains a lot of styling options, some of which should not be available everywhere.

1. To create a custom editor configuration:
2. Go to Settings > Editor > Editor Configurations
3. Click New editor configuration in the toolbar – then:
   • Enter a name
   • Select a type – currently you can choose between CKEditor 4 and TinyMCE 5
   • Configure the chosen editor

So which editor should you choose? Well…

• CKEditor 4 is more powerful but also more complex
• TinyMCE 5 is less powerful but also simpler to configure

Once you’ve created a custom editor configuration you can use it by e.g. applying it for a specific user or a user group. You can also select it on a Forum app and wherever you’ve used an item field of the type Rich Text.