Online Editor Help

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Michael Colligan	Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:15:59 pm eZ publish seems to be what I am looking for to implement at a couple of clients. However, I have one concern that maybe someone can shed light upon. The Online Editor doesn't appear to have all the functionality of other WYSIWYG editors. I can't see any way to change color of text, etc. My clients will have non-technical folks updating content for their particular section of a website. For this there are two needed requirements, drag and drop content from Word, OOo, or similar, and a fully-functional WYSIWYG editor. Needs to be SIMPLE for them. Can anybody help me see how this can be accomplshed with eZpublish? Thanks, Mike
Arran Price	Tuesday 28 February 2006 1:51:13 pm Hi Michael, The Online editor allows as you have noticed limited functionality - this is typically because colors etc are handled by css. For our site preventing the user from changing colors is a good thing because we have standards that need to be adheared to. It dosent prevent users from using bold or italics or changing the heading types etc, but our stylesheets determine what will actually happen to that content and style appropriately (including font/color etc). There is an open office tool/extension detailed on the ezpublish site somewhere, I havent used it so cant comment on it. From a user point of view and simplicity, I have found ezpublish was picked up very quickly by non technical people who are now content owners for our site and they seem to find it easy to use and quick to add/maintain content. Hope thats of some help. Arran
Michael Colligan	Tuesday 28 February 2006 2:22:44 pm Thank you for your reply, Arran. I will just have to play with the system some more and see what I feel. I'm just try to walk a delicate balance between removing some ownership/creative license from some folk but leaving some creative ability in their hands. All the while, maintaining pure simplicity for others.
Siw Helen Thorslund	Wednesday 01 March 2006 6:00:44 am From experiencing customers using other WYSIWYG editors I feel one of the good things about the Online Editor in eZ publish is the fact that you limit the users from changing font's, colors and so on. Our experience is that the site can end up looking pretty bad with several "designers" setting the design through the WYSIWYG editor. You should also consider how this will break the idea of separating design and content (a couple of examples; future redesign, browsing through other apps. than normal browsers...) With doing this the designer will set the style for the site, which give the site a more professional look all the way through. The online editor have oportunities to set custom classes, id's, views to objects, tables and so on. The design of these elements will also be defined by the designer in the css, and give extra design possibillities to the users. www.VZT.no ( http://www.VZT.no ) VZT References ( http://http://vzt.no/index.php/vzt_eng/referanser ) VZT Extensions ( http://vzt.no/index.php/vzt_eng/extensions ) www.MediaBase.no ( http://www.MediaBase.no )

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:26:57
Script start
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Module start 'layout'
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Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:26:58
Module end 'content'
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Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.6542 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	62

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0074	588.9063	152.6094
Module start 'layout'	0.0074	0.0034	741.5156	39.4141
Module start 'content'	0.0108	0.6420	780.9297	580.7813
Module end 'content'	0.6528	0.0014	1,361.7109	12.1875
Script end	0.6542		1,373.8984

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0035	0.5313	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0015	0.2293	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0019	0.2930	1	0.0019
Mysqli_queries	0.5981	91.4187	62	0.0096
Looping result	0.0007	0.1052	60	0.0000
Template Total	0.6162	94.2	2	0.3081
Template load	0.0025	0.3757	2	0.0012
Template processing	0.6137	93.8086	2	0.3069
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0234	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0008	0.1235	1	0.0008
state_identifier_array	0.0012	0.1778	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0021	0.3169	26	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0006	0.0922	3	0.0002
Fetch class attribute name	0.0009	0.1318	5	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0008	0.1177	3	0.0003
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0011	5	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0009	0.1312	16	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0014	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 12 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs