Is it possible to replace the included FreeTextBox editor with the pro version and have these features:

display different toolbars in the editor depending on roles? for example, certain users would only be able to select styles from the drop down list while other users would see all of the toolbars including tables and forms?

how do we have different css styles for the different modules? or what is the best way to format the different modules with css? we want to move up a level and format all the tables using css

thanks,
arlie

at the moment the toolbar configuration is set by the html editor provider specified in the web.config.

We have discussed allowing a module to request levels of toolbars (i.e. min, normal, max) and then those levels would be set by the prescribed provider. But that functionality is not currently scheduled for 3.0

Jeremy,
I suggest another parameter for the calling module to set, which toolbars are available as this might depend on the user and on the purpose of the module.

just my 2 cents

Sebastian

but it has to be generic enough for other types of editors, anyway, just in discussion stages right now, keep discussing.

My FreeTextBox editor does not show up anymore after I click EDIT under the pencil. Can I check the config? What can I do to get it or another editor to work at all?

Thanks.

Please give more details.
Which Version DNN,
Which Module, or all modules,
What happens exactly ?

I have DNN 2.0.4 on a Win2k srv with .NET 1.1 SP1. (It has .NET 1.1 before sp1. I put sp1 on today in hopes to fix).

Now when I log in all looks good but when I add a TEXT/HTML it shows up on the screen fine. Then I got to pencil and then click edit, I get a white screen (inside my DNN dropdown menu are; i.e. not totally white...just nothing inside of the area where the FTB editor would normally show up.)

Worked last week. Don't know of changes.

Possible that our IT guy ran IIS Lockdown or URLSCAN though because we had to reset some perms after that to get the DNN working again previously. Could be a residual problem.

System seems to work fine except for the showing up of the built in html editor.

<Worked last week. Don't know of changes>

I',m sorry, but that is the problem Don't know the changes !

Could somone help me understand how DNN calls the Editor? Thanks.

I have two intermittent problems that are occuring on several instances of dnn 3.0.12 hosted and internal. These are related to the FTB Provider, and not (although i am not positive) with FTB itself:

they are
1. GetPanels is a method in the TextEditor.vb , sometimes there is an object reference exception at this point loading the editor. Any page that contains a DNN_TextEditor will fail with this exception.
2. Set_Text throws an object reference exception while attempting to set the Text property of the editor.

My idea, is that the TextEditor.vb is attempting to access the control before it is instantiated, this may have to do with the use of an asx file which is referenced in the web.config (freetextbox.asx).

These happen unfortunately, at the very worst of moments, and seem to go away after the app recycles, when you force it to recycle by copying the ftb.dll back into the website bin, but seems to take a while regardless.

I am still trying to figure out if these only happen with ftb, or with any other editors.

if anyone has seen this before, please pipe up!

Ok Kod, I'm finally going to pipe in because this FreeTextBox thing is becoming extra work.

First: I have XPsp2 on client, W2k Server sp4, IIS5, Dnn 3.0.11.

I have the Bonosoft Multi-Page module installed on a Tab labeled WhyPortals. When I go to Edit the Multi-Page entries, I pick the item that I want to edit and I'll try to do my best to explain the results.

Sometimes the current text displays, sometimes it doesn't. Even when it does display correctly, when I hilite some text, the bottom two toolbars on the FreeTextBox work ok with the text area. One of the problems is that the top toolbar doesn't correctly reflect the current text states concerning the Paragraph, Font, Size, Color, and Highlight elements. Even more blatant, they don't even work at all in this state. In addition, even when the mentioned elements are not working the Styles element (which is the remaining control on the top toolbar) lists the styles correctly.

Now, I expanded my testing by adding a normal Text/HTML module to the content pane just below the Multi-Page module. When I choose to edit the text in the new module, everything works the way that it's supposed to. Again, these are now the only two modules on this Tab (Page).

I've been trying to track down this problem in the forums using the search text freetextbox. The only mentions that I see (and I have no idea whether they are really related because I don't think the sources are being totally open) are references to some blogs that Nina has referenced some problem with some skin that affects the FTB and some other questions about the FTB dll and something about what state it is in at a given time.

I know that this is a little confusing, but it is a little confusing!

If you would like to direct me in a little more defined testing, please feel free to ask.

Thanks,

John Kellgren
newtrendsoftware.net

If it works in the core module and not the custom module, then I would say there is a problem with the custom module, not with FTB. They both use the same provider and freetextbox .dll

Jeremy, I agree with you 110 percent. I continued this post because not only am I having 'weird' problems with the FTB, but quite a few others are experiencing related issues. From reading the various posts, there seems to be multiple module/skin developers that are having a problem with interaction with the FTB.

Sure would like to be able to actually edit the items that I have included in the Bonosoft Multi-Page module without having to do them in a core Text/HTML module (hidden on the same Tab) and then copy and paste the results to the Multi-Page module.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

John Kellgren

Jeremy:

Another situation. I know that I previously responsed to your post saying that the FTB was only working incorrectly within the BonoSoft multipage module when attempting to edit an item.

Because of my other note that said that the normal Text/Html box was working correctly that it must be the BonoSoft module causing the problem.

Well, the lastest is that I just attempted to add a PayPal button on my Home page. I added a core Text/Html module to the page and then went in to add the html for paypal. SAME PROBLEM as when using the BonoSoft module. I think we need to repay a little attention to this situation.

Thank you for your time. If you need any extra explanation or regression testing, please let me know.

John Kellgren