My application uses CKEditor 5 to allow users to edit rich text data. These texts support some application-specific custom elements (Web Components), and I want to extend CKEditor with custom plugins that support inserting such custom elements. I seem to be almost there, but I'm having some difficulties getting these custom elements into and out of the CKEditor instance properly.
Current plugin implementations
I mainly followed the Implementing an inline widget tutorial from the CKEditor 5 documentation. As an example, I would like to support a custom element like <product-info product-id="123"></product-info>, which in CKEditor should be rendered as a simple <span> with a specific class for some styling.
In my editing plugin, I first define the extension to the schema:
const schema = this.editor.model.schema;
schema.register('product-info', {
allowWhere: '$text',
isInline: true,
isObject: true,
allowAttributes: [ 'product-id' ]
});
I then define the upcast and downcast converters, closely sticking to the tutorial code:
const conversion = this.editor.conversion;
conversion.for('upcast').elementToElement({
view: {
name: 'span',
classes: [ 'product-info' ]
},
model: (viewElement, { writer: modelWriter }) => {
const id = viewElement.getChild(0).data.slice(1, -1);
return modelWriter.createElement('product-info', { 'product-id': id });
}
});
conversion.for('editingDowncast').elementToElement({
model: 'product-info',
view: (modelItem, { writer: viewWriter }) => {
const widgetElement = createProductInfoView(modelItem, viewWriter);
return toWidget(widgetElement, viewWriter);
}
});
conversion.for('dataDowncast').elementToElement({
model: 'product-info',
view: (modelItem, { writer: viewWriter }) => createProductInfoView(modelItem, viewWriter)
});
function createProductInfoView(modelItem, viewWriter) {
const id = modelItem.getAttribute('product-id');
const productInfoView = viewWriter.createContainerElement(
'span',
{ class: 'product-info' },
{ isAllowedInsideAttributeElement: true }
);
viewWriter.insert(
viewWriter.createPositionAt(productInfoView, 0),
viewWriter.createText(id)
);
return productInfoView;
}
Expected behavior
The idea behind all this is that I need to support the custom <product-info> elements stored in user data in the backend. CKEditor, which is used by users to edit that data, should load these custom elements and transform them into a styled <span> for display purposes while editing. These should be treated as inline widgets since they should only be able to be inserted, moved, copied, pasted, deleted as a whole unit. A CKEditor plugin should allow the user to create new such elements to be inserted into the text, which will then also be <span>s in the editing view, but <product-info>s in the model, which should also be written back to the backend database.
In other words, I expected this to ensure a direct mapping between element <product-info product-id="123"></product-info> in the model, and <span class="product-info">123</span> in the view, to support inserting and moving of <product-info> elements by the user.
Actual result
In short, I seem to be unable to get CKEditor to load data containing <product-info> elements, and unable to retrieve the model representation of these custom elements for backend storage. All operations to insert data to CKEditor from source, or to retrieve CKEditor data for sending to the backend, seem to operate on the view.
For example, if I preload CKEditor contents either by setting the inner content of the element that is replaced with the editor instance, or inserting it like this:
const viewFragment = editor.data.processor.toView(someHtml);
const modelFragment = editor.data.toModel(viewFragment);
editor.model.insertContent(modelFragment);
I see the following behavior (verified using CKEditor Inspector):
When inserting the custom element, i.e. <product-info product-id="123"></product-info>, the element is stripped. It's not present in either the model nor the view.
When inserting the view representation, i.e. <span class="product-info">123</span> I get the representation that I want, i.e. that same markup in CKEditor's view, and the <product-info product-id="123"></product-info> tag in the model.
This is exactly the opposite of what I want! In my backend, I don't want to store the view representation that I created for editing purposes, I want to store the actual custom element. Additionally:
My UI plugin to insert new product info elements, uses a command that does the following:
execute({ value }) {
this.editor.model.change( writer => {
const productInfo = writer.createElement('product-info', {
'product-id': value
});
this.editor.model.insertContent(productInfo);
writer.setSelection(productInfo, 'on');
});
}
which also works as I want it to, i.e. it generates the product-info tag for the model and the span for the view. But, of course, when loading an entire source text when initialising the editor with data from the backend, I can't use this createElement method.
Conversely, in order to retrieve the data from CKEditor for saving, my application uses this.editor.getData(). There, these proper pairs of <product-info> model elements and <span> view elements get read out in their view representation, instead of their model representation – not what I want for storing this data back!
The question
My question is: what do I need to change to be able to load the data into CKEditor, and get it back out of the CKEditor, using the custom element, rather than the transformed element I want to show only for editing purposes? Put differently: how can I make sure the content I insert into CKEditor is treated as the model representation, and how do I read out the model representation from my application?
I'm confused about this because if the model representation is something that is only supposed to be used internally by CKEditor, and not being able to be set or retrieved from outside – then what is the purpose of defining the schema and these transformations in the first place? It will only ever be visible to CKEditor, or someone loading up the CKEditor Inspector, but of no use to the application actually integrating the editor.
Sidenote: an alternative approach
For a different approach, I tried to forgo the transformation to <span>s entirely, and just use the custom element <product-info>, unchanged, in both the model and the view, by using the General HTML Support functionality. This worked fine, since this time no transformation was needed, all I had to do was to set the schema in order for CKEditor to accept and pass through the custom elements.
The reason I can't go with this approach is that in my application, these custom components are handled using Angular Elements, so they will actually be Angular components. The DOM manipulation seems to interfere with CKEditor, the elements are no longer treated as widgets, and there are all manner of bugs and side effects that come with it. Elements show up fine in CKEditor at first, but things start falling apart when trying to select or move them. Hence my realisation that I probably need to create a custom representation for them in the CKEditor view, so they're not handled by Angular and preventing these issues.
I'm new in angular. We are using UI-grid for data presentation is is possible to customize filter process. I want to customize it in that way, that filtering is peformmed on button click, not on keydown?
This is idea
$scope.search = function (){
$scope.personCardGrid.useExternalFiltering = false; $scope.grid1Api.core.notifyDataChange(uiGridConstants.dataChange.ALL);
$scope.gridApi.core.refresh() $scope.personCardGrid.useExternalFiltering = true;
$scope.grid1Api.core.notifyDataChange(uiGridConstants.dataChange.ALL);
$scope.gridApi.core.refresh() }
Regards
You need to define your own headerCellTemplate for the column. In the template, add a input text box and a button too. Then, define a function in the controller and call it using the external scope which will filter the records.
how can add new control from controller
// create a simple Input field
var oInput1 = new sap.m.Text('input1');
oInput1.setText("Some Text ");
oInput1.setTooltip("This is a tooltip ");
// attach it to some element in the page
oInput1.placeAt("sample1");
in view I add holder
try to add text from controller but it not display on screen.
var oLayout = this.getView().byId("idholder");
oLayout.addContent(oInput1);
is Run-time add new control is not possible. we have always render control in view and then update it is this good practice we have to follow ?
The placeAt() method is normally only used to place a View or App into the HTML.
If you want to add a UI5 control on your view, you can do it this way from the controller:
this.getView().addContent(oInput1);
But most likely you won't add controls directly to the view, but rather inside a layout or something inside your view. In that case, do it like this:
var oLayout = this.getView().byId("idOfYourSpecificLayoutFrame");
oLayout.addContent(oInput1);
I'm working on a Kendo Mobile project with a number of:
Kendo Views (external to root html)
Modal Views (in the root html).
The external files load on demand and everything works fine. But i'd like to have the same load on demand behavior for some of the modal views, because the root/based html file is becoming too large and not manageable.
Is there a way to either:
Store a modal view in an external file? If so is it possible to load via javascript syntax (app.navigate()) rather than the declarative syntax (href='externalmodal').
Manually pre-load an external view without navigating to it first.
This code lets you manually create a view:
var viewUrl = 'blahblahblah';
var element = $.parseHTML('<div data-role=view>test</div>')[0];
element.style.display = 'none';
$(document.body).append(element);
var options = $.extend({}, kendo.parseOptions(element, kendo.mobile.ui.View.fn.options));
var view = new kendo.mobile.ui.View(element, options);
view.element[0].setAttribute('data-url', viewUrl);
kendo.mobile.application.navigate(viewUrl, '');
Depending on what features you use, you may need to instead use code similar that that used for ModalView below so that Kendo creates the subclass (changes: substitute View for ModalView, substitute view for modalview, add data-url, remove call to show(), maybe check that view not already created by checking for element with matching data-url). We haven't tested setting roles.view this way, but we did something similar while testing this stuff out and it worked.
Don't try settings the options - Kendo got confused (at least trying to set useNativeScrolling didn't work, also don't try setting the options object on the subclass unless you really know what you are doing).
Caveat: This was using browserHistory:false (which disables routing) when the kendo.mobile.Application was created. The technique should still work when using browser history if you use a valid url fragment (same as would be created by Kendo for the pushstate/hashchange url).
This is a also way to cleanly subclass kendo.mobile.ui.View that works well - although you must still use data-role=view even though your subclass is a "different" component. Note that you can't just use you cant use your own subclassed component with its own name like role=myview to subclass a view because there are hard-coded checks specifically for data-role=view in the kendo codebase. Same if you wish to subclass: layout modalview drawer splitview page (amongst other hard-coded kendo ui component names - search kendo code for kendo.roleSelector - ugly). e.g.
MyView = kendo.mobile.ui.View.extend({
init: function(element, options) {
kendo.mobile.ui.View.prototype.init.apply(this, arguments);
...
var myView = new MyView('<div data-role=view>test</div>');
Why it works: The relevant function in the Kendo source code is _findViewElement which does element = this.container.children("[" + attr("url") + "='" + urlPath + "']"); to see if the view already exists for a url, before creating a new one. A unique init function is always required as it ends up being the constructor function.
If you want to subclass a modalview, you need to do something different due to the way kendo works:
var MyModalView = kendo.mobile.ui.ModalView.extend({
html: '<div data-role=modalview style="width:90%;display:none;">Foobar</div>',
init: function() {
kendo.mobile.ui.ModalView.prototype.init.apply(this, arguments);
}
});
function makeModalView() {
$(document.body).append($.parseHTML(MyModalView.prototype.html));
var roles = $.extend({}, kendo.mobile.ui.roles);
roles.modalview = MyModalView;
var modalView = kendo.initWidget($(element), {}, roles);
modalView.open();
return modalView;
}
I am using kendo grid and its build-in functionality for creating and updating items.
I'm looking for a way to change Editor labels (title and buttons Update/Cancel).
I found an answer here (Change Button text in Kendo Ui Grid Popup Window) where OnaBei explains how to change title.
However, I still cannot figure out the way to change button names based on whether item is being added or being edited. The same with title, is it a way to change it based on "create"/"update" state?
I assume that it can be done with javascript, but it will probably be a hack and dirty solution.
This can be done in the edit event of the grid. The model event argument has a isNew method which will return true in "create" state. Here is some sample code:
edit: function(e) {
var title = "Edit mode";
if (e.model.isNew()) {
title = "Insert mode";
}
var wnd = e.container.data("kendoWindow");
wnd.title(title);
}
And a live demo: http://jsbin.com/USUpAZUT/1/edit