Using Ephox EditLive! as the default Rich Text Editor within the Express Internet / Intranet microsites

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, I'm using the Internet and Intranet microsites that are provided with WebSphere Portal / Lotus Web Content Management 6.1.

Having deployed them into my two-node WP/WCM 6.1.5 cluster ( Note; it's essential that they be deployed BEFORE database/LDAP transfer etc. ), using the ConfigEngine.sh scripts

./ConfigEngine.sh configure-express -DPortalAdminPwd=passw0rd -DWasPassword=passw0rd
./ConfigEngine.sh action-express-memberfixer -DPortalAdminPwd=passw0rd -DWasPassword=passw0rd

and, after the LDAP migration, having re-run the action-express-memberfix task, once I'd added the appropriate LDAP-based WPSADMIN account into: -

/opt/IBM/WebSphere/wp_profile/ PortalServer/wcm/shared/app/config/wcmservices/MemberFixerModule.properties

I wanted to configure them to use the most excellent Ephox EditLive! rich text editor, rather than the default IBM editor.

That nice Mr Adrian Sutton Esq kindly pointed me at a document on the Ephox website: -

Ensuring LWWCM 6.0/6.1 Inline Editing Uses EditLive!

which describes how, as the portal adminstrator, to configure the Web Content Viewer portlets to use EditLive, by updating or adding a property: -

WCM_RICH_TEXT_EDITOR = EditLiveJavaEditor.jsp

I tried this, but the IBM RTE still came up as default when I created a new item of content ( actually a new Company News item within Home page of the Internet microsite ).

Thankfully, common sense prevailed and, rather than searching for portlets by the criteria "Title Starts With -> Web Content Viewer" - which only threw up: -

Web Content Viewer IBM API ibm.portal.Web.Content.Viewer
Web Content Viewer (JSR 286) JSR 286 ibm.portal.Web.Content.Viewer.Jsr286

I chose the search criteria "Title Contains -> Web Content Viewer" which returned: -

Web Content Viewer IBM API ibm.portal.Web.Content.Viewer
Web Content Viewer (JSR 286) JSR 286 ibm.portal.Web.Content.Viewer.Jsr286
Express Web Content Viewer IBM API ibm.portal.Express.portlets.lrp

It was the Express Web Content Viewer that I needed to change - in hindsight, had I looked at Edit Page Layout for one of the Internet/Intranet pages, I'd have got the same result.

The other wrinkle was that, in contrast to the Ephox website, the IBM Information Centre here: -

Using the EditLive editor in local Web content viewer portlets

directs one to use a slightly different value for the property: -

WCM_RICH_TEXT_EDITOR = /wps/ephox;/jsp/html/EditLiveJavaEditor.jsp

When I used EditLiveJavaEditor.jsp or /jsp/html/EditLiveJavaEditor.jsp, I still got the IBM RTE rather than EditLive!

So, after some trial and, as always, some error, I now have the EditLive! editor as my default RTE throughout my WP/WCM environment, which is nice.

And now to try and get the IBM WebSphere Portal Content Templates Catalog working in my clustered environment - I'll crack it, with the help of the Dublin labs. from whence the installer came ...