Re: tinymce settings per user/group?

On 29 Nov 2013, at 11:41 am, Rok Garbas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Dylan Jay (2013-11-29 00:01:44)
>> 
>> On 29 Nov 2013, at 3:34 am, Rok Garbas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> hi,
>>> 
>>>>   Just wondering if anyone else is interested in this requirement?  It's
>>>>   something that only occasionally comes up but when you think about it
>>>>   could be very useful.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, one of my project requires the similar feature.  My use case is focus
>>>> on 'Insert/Edit Image' button: * for admin group users: full functionality
>>>> as default TinyMCE provides * for regular group users: can only "Insert
>>>> image from URL" (External), can not see Internal tab nor upload images
>>>> 
>>>> To my understanding, this requires JavaScript code detecting user's
>>>> role/group and conditionally provides functionality.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   For example - giving site admins some extra styles no one else has - or
>>>>   the ability for news section reviewers to use the font button.
>>>> 
>>>>   Any ideas how that might be implemented?  I figure since
>>>>   plone.app.users is being rewritten and so is tinymce integration now
>>>>   might be the time consider this change.  ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm a Plone integrator, and love to see this be implemented. Let me know
>>>> if anything I can help.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> currently p.a.widgets doesn't ship with tinymce widget. reason: there are
>>> few rough edges and it was better to release without it and continue
>>> working on next version where tinymce is going to be included.
>>> 
>>> that said it would be awesome to get some help to push final work on
>>> tinymce to be finished asap (once this is done new release is going to be
>>> cut) and you could already benefit work of plone 5 widgets by using
>>> plone.app.widgets in your 4.3 plone.
>> 
>> So then plan is keep the settings in portal_tinymce for a 4.3 compatible
>> release?
>> 
> 
> no. setting will be pulled from p.a.registry.

In Plone 4.3 the tinymce settings aren't stored in the p.a.registry so if you plan to make a version compatible with plone 4.3 then I'm confused. You are going to do an upgrade step? and then have a control panel that no longer works since it writes to portal_tinymce?


> 
>>> it should be fairly easy to get some above mentionened behaviour from new
>>> tinymce widget.
>> 
>> it's not about the widget but where we store user preferences. If the plan is
>> to store tinymce preferences in the registry we'd need a way to combine that
>> with user or group overrides of those tinymce preferences. I was wondering if
>> anyone had thought of a nice way to do that.
>> 
> 
> whole tinymce configuration is a dictionary. it think easiest would be to:
> 
> 1. default configuration will be in "pattern.tinymce" record which is
>   a dictionary
> 
> 2. in your custom project or addon you point to user/group/role specific
>   record. eg. "role.pattern.tinymce.Administrator" (or whatever record name
>   you prefer) which will also return a dictionary.

I'm talking about core plone5, not a custom project or addon. I'm talking about to go into site setup > groups, pick a group and edit tinymce settings for that group or user.
or perhaps go to site setup > tinymce > customise settings for group or user > pick a group or user etc.


> 
> 3. you merge both dictionaries where configuration from 2. will take
>   precedence.
> 
> all we need to provide is for you to do have this point where you can hook and
> manipulate your configuration. also same customization can be applied to any
> other pattern.

yep, that would be a great start. Perhaps instead of a direct registry call there is an adapter call that includes the user, context and pattern?

> 
> 
> --
> Rok Garbas - http://www.garbas.si


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