Found the answer to this issue after much googling and experimenting, and
had to re-install Zope and Plone a couple of times. Here's the scoop for
anyone else who may be having this problem (I'm finding that documentation
of the CMF tools is relatively scarce, or in a format that isn't helpful to
Zope newbies):
(assuming Zope and Plone are installed and working)
1) Download the CMFVisualEditor.tar.gz file.
2) Decompress this file into the [Zope]/Products directory. Where [Zope] is
your root Zope installation point.
For me, it's /var/lib/zope/zope-2_6_1/Products/
3) Open a web page to the Zope Management Interface. Navigate to the root
Plone site you'd like to add the editor too.
4) Create an External Method in the root of the Plone site. (Select External
Method from the Add List in the upper right)
5) Assign the following values to the External Method :
id: cmfvisualeditor.install (this is an arbitrary value, as long
as it's unique)
Title: CMFVisualEditor.Install
Module Name: CMFVisualEditor.Install
Function Name: install (careful to match the text case)
6) Click the Save Changes button. This adds the item into the folder.
7) Click on the newly added item (cmfvisualeditor.install - or whatever ID
you assigned it)
8) Click the Test tab. This installs the editor into your plone site.
(This is where I got to but then got stuck...)
9) In a new browser window, open your Plone site. (NOT through the Zope
Management Interface)
10) Log into the Plone site, and then click on the My Preferences link
(upper right).
11) In the Content Editor drop down list, select Visual Editor. (clicking
the test tab above is what allows the editor as an option here)
12) Save your profile.
Now, when you edit an entry in your Plone site, you will be using the
WYSIWYG editor.
For those interested, there are other options out there (such as Epoz, and
ieeditor). It's possible to allow multipe editors to select from. I found
a nice listing of Through The Web (TTW) editors here:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html It marks which ones work
with Zope. I think the next one I'll look at is using WebDAV, cuz it looks
like it'll allow me to use my favorite editor (Homesite+), or any arbitrary
file based web page editor...
Hopefully this helps someone.
Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 2:47 AM
To: CLUG (E-mail)
Subject: (clug-talk) Zope, Plone, and CMFVisualEditor
I've been looking for an open source content management system, and have
recently come across Zope. (I looked at Bricolage, but I don't think my
perl skills are up to it). It seems Zope will do most of what I am after -
through the web managment and content creation, and adding Plone on top of
it takes me even further. However, the one thing missing is a WYSIWYG web
based html editor. I've searched and came across the CMFVisualEditor. I've
been able to download and install the editor within Plone, but I still don't
get the WYSIWYG editor to display. I think I've missed a step somewhere,
but do not yet have a good enough understanding of Zope and CMF to see
where. I've got things to the point where I can go into the Zope Management
Interface, and install the editor to a plone instance.
Has anyone else on the list implemented Zope, Plone and the CMFVisualEditor?
If so, any tips would be appreciated. I think I might need to edit a form
somewhere, but am not sure about this, or which form to edit.
Thanks.
Shawn
