Feature Pack 7 or later

Activating CKEditor in Management Center

In this lesson, you change your Management Center preferences to use CKEditor instead of the default rich text editor in Management Center. Later in this tutorial, you use CKEditor to edit HTML content for your layout.

About this task

CKEditor is an HTML-based, WYSIWYG editor that offers advanced editing capabilities to simplify the creation of web content. Starting in Feature Pack 7, a customized version of CKEditor is embedded in multiple Management Center tools, including the Commerce Composer tool. With a simple change to your preferences, you can switch from the previous Management Center rich text editor to CKEditor. In CKEditor, you can do the following things:
  • Edit content by using Undo, Redo, and Paste special options.
  • Import different elements, such as tables, lines, and special characters.
  • Use templates to provide a quick start for standardized content.
  • Automatically correct broken HTML code to ensure that proper HTML is generated. For example, a store developer might provide HTML code to add to a rich text field. If the code contains a missing closing bold tag (</b>), CKEditor automatically inserts the missing tag.

Procedure

To activate CKEditor:
  1. From the Management Center Tools menu, click Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, select the Use CKEditor check box to activate CKEditor.
  3. In the warning message, click Yes.
  4. Close the Preferences window.

Results

CKEditor is now activated for all rich text editing fields in Management Center. In the next lesson, you will use CKEditor to edit HTML content in two Text Editor widgets.