Optional Editor Addins for Roller

Instructions apply to Roller 4.0 release

This download includes optional editor addins for Roller. Currently, there are only three: 1) the Javascript Enchanced Text editor, 2) the Ekit applet editor and 3) the RTE rich text editor.

How to install the Optional Editor Addins for Roller

1. Download the Roller Webapp release apache-roller-X.Y-incubating.tar.gz from the Roller project download page
2. Follow the instructions in the Roller Installation Guide to install Roller
3. When you're done, download the editor add-in TAR file that you wish to install from the Roller Support project download page)
4. Extract the editor add-in TAR file into the Roller Webapp directory [1]
5. Follow the instructions below to configure the optional plugins

[1] Here's an example of how you would extract the files on a UNIX system where Roller is installed into /usr/local/apache-roller-X.0 and the Roller webapp is in /usr/local/apache-roller-x.0/webapp/roller

   % cp optional-edtoraddins-roller-X.Y.tar.gz /usr/local/roller/webapp/roller
   % cd /usr/local/roller
   % tar xzvf optional-editoraddins-roller-X.Y.tar.gz

Configuring the optional editor addins

Once you've installed the optional editor addins for Roller, you must make them available for your users to choose. To do this, you must override the plugins.weblogEntryEditors property via your roller-custom.properties file. For example, you would add this to add the Ekit, RTE and Text-JS editors to Roller:

plugins.weblogEntryEditors=\
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.plugins.TextEditor,\
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.plugins.XinhaEditor,\
net.java.dev.roller.editorplugins.ekit.EkitEditor,\
net.java.dev.roller.editorplugins.rte.RTEEditor,\
net.java.dev.roller.editorplugins.textjs.TextJSEditor

Once you do that, your users will be able to pick one of the new editors for their weblogs via the Weblog Preferences-Settings page.