Hi,
Since moving to the Freedom UI (mixed bag) our users have made several comments about the improvement and regression of the Rich text field capabilities.
- Loss of the full screen option
- This was nice, as you could effectively work on a 'document' in a more efficient and effective manner. Having the single line workspace and being embedded with other content all around it is not a nice experience
- Visual formatting
- Tables - It is not possible to put cell/row/column colours in place, or cell borders etc. that allow tables to be strong presentation modes. This is especially true when copying content from say Word or Excel
- Additional preset text Formats in the list. H1, H2 and H3 are not enough
- Format bar keeps disappearing, meaning you spend time moving back to the mouse to bring back the format options. This should be a permanent display or at least a toggle to keep it as such
The HTML5 Editor is an example of a more powerful editor.
Hoping for improvements.
Mark
Do you like this idea?
Hello,
Thank you for bringing this functionality to our attention.
We have already registered ideas related to points 2.1 and 2.2, and our team plans to introduce additional rich text capabilities in upcoming releases.
Regarding point 1, the rich text field currently expands automatically while editing and adapts to the amount of entered text.
As for point 3, this issue was resolved in version 8.2.2 — the toolbar now remains visible on the page until it’s manually closed.
Your feedback helped us increase the priority of these improvements.
Thank you for helping us make the product better!
Hi Yelyzaveta
Thanks for your reply. Good to hear about the upcoming improvements.
On the full screen mode, I agree it is better in the way the field auto expands as you type, however when you have a larger amount of content to create, especially with use of tables and formatting, it is much much easier to work in a full screen mode, as you can clearly see everything you are creating. It is also not continuously surrounded by other text, that often you are unsure if is part of your new rich text content or not.
Please re-add this capability
Not the same as the full screen option, but you can force the Freedom UI text editor to be a larger size (instead of growing with the content) using some CSS. See https://customerfx.com/article/changing-the-height-of-the-creatio-freedom-ui-richtext-editor/
Also, in current versions of Creatio, the Rich Text control has an option "Always show formatting options" to always show the toolbar in the control.
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
Appreciate your reply and I can see an improvement by applying your CSS workaround. A little bit of a pain to have to go through each individual field in this way, but an improvement none the less.
I have had a look for for this setting, but cannot find it and as we are running 8.3.x I would have thought from your statement it should be there. If you can provide some further guidance please.
thanks again
Mark Roberts,
The option shows for a rich text control here for me:
The result is that when the rich text control gets focus the toolbar automatically appears without the user needing to click the button with the [T] to show it
Note, only shows once the control gets focus and the user has clicked into the field.
In the code, the control gets a property as
"alwaysShowToolbar": trueRyan