WYMEditor
From:
Michael JasonSmith
Date:
Oct 02 22:41 UTC
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I should give some background to Andrew's post. In the development roadmap for
GroupServer, there is an item scheduled for Sorbet:
Content editor, so non-ZMI users can edit pages.
http://groupserver.org/groupserver/roadmap/#sorbet
There is a couple of reasons that non-ZMI users need to edit pages. First, so
more structured information can be placed in a user's biography, on the group
homepages, and the site homepages. Second, the *filing* task — organising
documents by some sort of taxonomy, like books in a library — is not well
supported by GroupServer. Instead, GroupServer tends to make *piles* of
documents, which are arranged in a temporal order
http://groupserver.org/s/index.html?&t=0&p=0&f=1
http://groupserver.org/s/index.html?&t=0&p=1&f=0
http://groupserver.org/s/index.html?&t=1&p=0&f=0
The editor that we are thinking of using is WYMeditor
http://www.wymeditor.org/en/
It is simple, and creates nicely structured code that works with the templates
that GroupServer uses. For example, there is no ability to change the typeface,
or the size of the text! From what I can recall, WYMeditor has scope for
tweaking the interface, so it looks and behaves more GroupServer (Andrew?)
The biggest down side that I can see with WYMeditor, initially, is that the
user must understand styles. From the documents that I have seen people produce
in Microsoft Word, I have a fear that styles are not commonly used, so there
will be no transfer of knowledge from one interface to another.