ISSUE SUMMARY:

Is Jomsocial designed to be able to use JCE on the backend? Or is it Frontend only? I would like to use JCE on the backend, like creating group description, etc., so I can have full control over the styling of the text, as well as marking up the source code w/ Yootheme's UIkit. Not that I want to bother doing the extra work, but since Jomsocial is spitting out gray text on gray background, I have to intervene... And all my HTML markup have been downgraded to a pair of <p></p>. The plg_editor_jce is set in the Configuration.

Another truly annoying time waster from Jomsocial.

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Hi.

JomSocial 3.2.1.6 was last version that allowed to use custom WYSIWYG editor but for frontend only - in backend it was plain text editor. In JomSocial 4.0.1 for frontend is used ONE simplified editor and for backend text editor.

So, no, you can't incorporate JCE for backend. But having text editor allow to have FULL control over text style.... if someone knows HTML and CSS. For skilled admin it should be enough... or always you could develop your skills ;)

Marking by hand is not the problem, however, I was p***ed when all my UIkit markups were wiped out. Why did it do that?

For example:
<article class="uk-article">
<ul class="uk-list">
<li>….</li>
</ul>
</article>

got squashed into <p>xxx</p>. That's what propelled me to ask for support. I can't afford to keep spending time on something like this and then have Jomsocial just wipes it out and replaces it w/ the simplest markup. If you say it support FULL control over text style, then what happened to my markup?

SH

Hi.

Editor will be improved soon. Custom editor caused a lot of issues on users sites. We received a lot of reports so we decided to use only native one and deprecate custom.
In next releases (not in 4.0.2 yet) editor will be improved.

Michal

So, exactly what is your solution for this?

You said the simple BE editor can give FULL control to custom markups. But it looks like what the editor can only allow the most basic simple HTML markups with basic tags. I can understand you are being careful about filtering the inputs, but there is no CSS or JS code in the input! You guys are one of the biggest components on Joomla, and I can't understand why this is such an issue.

SH

Hi.

Please, ask in Community and tag Sinisa. I'm just support staff and can't explain or take any decision towards what is/will be implemented in JomSocial and why. This belongs to PO (Product Owner).

Hi Michal

Didn't mean to make it difficult for you. Perhaps you can forward the request to Sinisa. I am sure Jomsocial has an internal communication process that allows support staff to forward customer concerns to the PO's. I am sure if you were an end user, you wouldn't want to spend more time to comb through the forum to find the relevant personnel and restart the discussions over again.

Thanks for your help.

SH

Hi.

I already talked with Sinisa... also he explained this decision in Community. Custome WYSIWYG editor was causing constantly issues. As descriptions are not articles any usage of "read more" or "break pages" tags may crash site... also it caused scripts conflict.

So the only solution will be to... downgrade... or post a feature request to extend existing editor to allow some code and not striping it.

In JomSocial 4.0.2 editor was already improved to allow adding pictures.

So please post also here:

uservoice.jomsocial.com/forums/101561-feature-request
www.jomsocial.com/community/groups/viewg...stions-for-the-staff

And I'm sure that Sinisa will reply...