A version of this article was originally posted on Matteo Bisi’s blog. Matteo is a System Engineer at Factor-y S.r.l. and is an IBM Champion.
Ephox editors are included in IBM Connections 5.5 entitlements and in my opinion have great features that make installing Textbox.io and EditLive! an easy decision.
Some days ago IBM released a new build (3.0.1.191) via IBM Fixcentral that includes new features, like Microsoft Edge support, along with improvements and some bug fixes. Here’s a summary of the update highlights:
New features
- Images uploaded by EditLive! in Forums are now uploaded to the Forums storage rather than to Files
- Integration of Textbox.io into Connections
- Java 8 support for EditLive
- Image upload failures now display more meaningful error messages
- Added image upload failure message handling for an error uploading in Forums
- Added logDownload setting to control whether
logDownload="false"is added to the end of image URLs uploaded by EditLive.
Improvements & bug fixes
There were also a number of bug fixes in the release that addressed some edge use cases as well as improvements to functionality such as @mentions.
- Textbox.io version upgraded to 1.3.2, Microsoft Edge now supported
- Reduced size of “lite” Textbox.io editor
- Added “spellingServiceEnabled” configuration item, to permit enabling/disabling the spelling service
- Improved activities attachment deletion behavior
- Improved “!#” handling to handle multiple links within a single content item
- @mentions fixes, notably around the handling of empty @mentions links
- Spelling service caused problems for Textbox.io when there was no port in the URL
- Error uploading images in some Community pages
- ACL functionality for @mentions
- EditLive! could get stuck in background mode (“freeze”)
- Renamed editlive.css to ephox.css
- Updated @mentions profile search URL
- A function call was incompatible with Internet Explorer 8
- A function call was incompatible with Internet Explorer 7
- New Activities to-do items had an incorrect title
- Changed EditLive! upload behaviour to stop “editlive” tag being attached to Files images
- Autosave in wikis was moving the caret. This fix prevents the caret moving in most instances, except when the Table of Contents macro is used
- Altered URL encoding behaviour to prevent URL encoding of “!#”, which was causing incorrect behaviours in certain scenarios
- CSS fix to prevent editor overlapping pop up menus in homepage
- Removed filtering of existing incomplete @mentions.
If you need help with installing the Ephox editors, including Textbox.io, please check Ephox documentation and Christoph Stoettner’s quick install guide.
To verify the Ephox editors currently installed on your server check the following URL:
https://connectionsFQDN/connections/resources/web/ephox.editors.connections/verify.html
If everything is installed correctly you should obtain this response:
Ephox Editors for IBM Connections has been successfully installed. This is release 3.0.1.191 The EditLive! version in this release is 9.1.0.534. The Textbox.io version in this release is 1.3.2.17.
