Greetings,

I noticed that lots of admin possibilities available in 4.7 disappeared in 5.0 version.
How can I configure which buttons will be accessible for certain roles now?
I would also like to be able to use simple theme for comment pages and full one for node edit pages.
The last and the most important thing: my CCK node edit page has several textareas and I need to be able to customize which areas must have TinyMCE editor and which ones numst not.

Do you have any plans to implement some of these features and can you propose a solution?

Thank you a lot.

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scafmac’s picture

scafmac commented

I'm also interested in this. Any hints for when it might happen or what needs to go into doing it?

mguillermin’s picture

mguillermin commented

I'm also interested in this.
I wonder why the profile configuration disappeared in 5.X release...
It was a very useful functionnality.

bth’s picture

bth commented

Any news or comment on this one? Hope to have it back, as my editors really liked their personalized profiles. The admin section was also a very handy tool to set it up quickly without messing within JS invocation code.

AdrianB’s picture

AdrianB commented

There's lots of discussions about this in other issues and threads. Apparently it's been difficult to communication with the maintainer of this project, the backlog of issues is huge and no one is happy with this new simple version of TinyMCE, everyones longing for the 4.7 version to come back. There's been talk about switching maintainers, but I have no idea if that will happen. At least there's been some actives recently.

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luti commented

I also don't like the new 5.x version at all - extremely limited personalization, no way to turn it on or off per field etc... I've just installed it, but until significant changes, I am kicking it out of my 5.1 installation! If I will have all of the settings I have in my production 4.7 version, I will happily continue to use it, otherwise I have to look for something else, unfortunately...

BTW: I am mainly entering the HTML or PHP code in pure text field (to have all control), and absolutely want to find it as I've entered it, even if in between I use whatever graphical editor ot tool (mainly to enter images which is easier to enter this way, simply browsing the store...). The old TinyMCE had always made a mess in the code (and I've hated it much for that), then the last 4.7 (I use now) finally got the options (I had to change quite many defaults) to keep it as it more or less as it was.

By the way, why the hell are popup-windows (to enter images or links...) not resizable?! I have to edit scripts after every new installation to enable that, as in my Firefox I see only half of windows (IE works well...).

kreynen’s picture

kreynen commented

It's relatively easy to modify the 3 included "themes" for the Drupal 5 version of TinyMCE, adding, removing, reording buttons to fit your needs. It'd be nice to have a GUI to do this, but the documentation for customizing the TinyMCE is included in the download.

Customizing the options for each role is more complicated.

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ardas commented

I'm starting to think that binding profile to a role is not the best idea. For instance, I have two profiles: full set of buttons and light version and I want all users have full set for node pages and light version for comment form.

May be it is better to have a PHP snippet which will determine which profile is used in which case instead of specifying the role for the profile?

scafmac’s picture

scafmac commented

Ardas having different profiles based on usage makes sense, but so does having different profiles based on roles. In my setting where we use it more as a CMS than a community site, content maintainers need to have a lot more buttons than I would dare give some anonymous forum poster.

It is too bad that the Tiny_MCE maintainer is getting overloaded with requests - maybe a few of us could start providing patches to help him out - it can be a lot of work to maintain a popular module.

kreynen’s picture

kreynen commented

See my response to issue #116006 for a hack that enables you to configure different TinyMCE themes for different roles.

scafmac’s picture

scafmac commented

So in an effort to follow my own advice and scratch my own itch I created a patch to add this functionality. Thanks kreynen for the impetus to get started - check out http://drupal.org/node/116006

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kreynen commented
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