[Yanel-dev] tinyMCE link and image lookup problem

[Guillaume Déflache]

simon a écrit :
> hi all

Hi!


> i just noticed a real problem within our tinyMCE integration. at the 
> moment the lookup will insert path always  with '../'. the lookup 
> doesn't know anything about how relative the document is to the inserted 
> path. i think the lookup needs to know this. probably the easiest way is 
> to give a back2realm parameter when calling the lookup.
> 
> and now the big problem number two: tinyMCE doesn't know the correct 
> back2realm of the document either.
> 
> and the big problem number three (a very ugly one): tinyMCE shows broken 
> (or none) images if the document has another relation to the realm then 
> tinyMCE (e.g {back2ream}/usecases/tinymce.html) has.
> 
> as said above to fix the lookup problem is think a request parameter 
> with the wished back2realm value would be an easy way to fix it.
> 
> but to fix  problem two and three there would be a bigger effort.

I more or less see your point, although I am not sure I see the 
difference between all issues.
Maybe examples with full URLs could clarify, but never mind, read on 1st.


> one approach i can think of would be introducing parameter matching for 
> resource-types. this is something i miss in yanel for a long time. i 
> think this would simplify any editor integration a lot (and also other 
> problems).

Agreed, see 
http://lists.wyona.org/pipermail/yanel-development/2009-July/003836.html 
which already had a URL format proposal.


> this way an editor would be called with the same path as the web-view of 
> a document but with a special request parameter, therefore it would be 
> easy to get the right back2realm value when open the document with 
> tinyMCE. problem number three would be gone as well.
> 
> maybe there would be another (uglier) approach: calculating the 
> back2realm value via the edit-path value. but i'm not sure this would 
> help to solve problem number three since the solution to this seems to 
> be setting the tinyMCE paramter 'document_base_url' [1] which has to be 
> absolute.

BTW I assume Xinha is similarly broken and could also be made to work?


> so the big question is do we want to finally introduce parameter 

I think we always did, please step up and submit a patch! :) Bug is 
http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7205
I also did some remotely-related-and-maybe-helpful work on RT matching 
recently, cf. 
http://lists.wyona.org/pipermail/yanel-development/2009-December/004194.html 
and maybe look if the proposed interfaces would suit you.


> matching? or does someone has another clean but simpler solution to this 
> problems.

I for one has none.


> to be honest i think this problems are show stoppers re releasing yanel.
> 
> WDOT?

I think we cannot say really that our WYSIWYG editors work if image (and 
asset?) links are almost always broken indeed.


> 
> [1] 
> http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration/document_base_url
> 
> cheers
> simon

Cheers,
    Guillaume