Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Rich text input

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14: Re: Rich text input (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on
The nice thing about burying this all in a form builder datatype is that it will be easy to extend/modify if we can get packages to use the standard get_property/set_property etc methods you provide ...

Of course the programmer still has to get the datamodel right.  And the DML statements probably need to be done by hand (using get_property to grab the textarea and format field).

Right now content datamodels seem to either have "html_p" or "mime_type" columns to flag the appropriate text/CLOB column so adopting your scheme will imply upgrade scripts etc.  Though of course no one expects you to rewrite all the packages to take advantage of this when your done!

Perhaps this could be a target for a "hacking marathon" of the type we've talked about for bugs and documentation but which as of yet we've never done?