Redmine

I have installed it in production recently and had good comments about the ease of use. Of course you loose some benefits of Textile and some macros but for the links ans image CkEditor as a different solution. I have also redmine_per_project_formatting so you can configure CkEditor for the Issues and keep Textile for the Wiki.

Some macros still work like {{thumbnail(picture152-1.png, size=800,title=demo image)}} or {{macro_list}} but not {{>toc}} probably because <h1> does not match h1.

You can modify the style sheet of CkEditor to suit your need. For the formated style () I changed the background color and the font style. Additional information is at http://ckeditor.com/

Even {{>toc}} works! I just tried it with typing {{>toc}} into the editor. In HTML mode this gets converted to {{>toc}}. Anyhow this works in detail, it just works. I guess that all macros work, which is quite beautiful. Though I haven't test it. But I can even use the macros of the DMSF plugin.

But what could be the benefits of Textile that you said gets lost?

My limited experience is that it's great for fresh installs, but I had bad luck trying to run the rake task that migrates existing Textile content to HTML. I haven't reported this as a bug, and it could be user error. I ran the command below but left out the [PROJECT...] argument so that all my projects would be migrated. If you have a mature site (and this is obvious), I definitely recommend backing up your database before you try to install CKEditor.

rake redmine_ckeditor:migrate RAILS_ENV=production [PROJECT=project_identifier1,project_identifier2] [FORMAT=textile]

Great tip about the redmine_per_project_formatting plugin!

I've been running CKEditor in Redmine for about a year now, personally I prefer markdown, but I needed to find something that the end users could handle without any trouble.

The biggest issue you'll run into with this is the macro support. I've had to drop into the source view (hit the "Source" button in the editor tool bar) in order to get most of them to work. At the same time, I've never managed to get any of the multi-line macros to work, such as collapsible sections, probably due to how the text is stored in the DB (as HTML). Single-line macros like includes and thumbnails work just fine though.

One big word of warning though: there are no plugins or conversion scripts that I know of to convert Redmine wiki pages or issue descriptions from HTML to any other format. Once you go for CKEditor, unless you manually update everything, you will quite likely be stuck with it for a very long time... I'd suggest you run it in a test environment and give the end users access to it to get their opinion before you implement it in your production environment.

Thank you for your comments!

does anyone else have the problem that & are converted to &amp; in links?

this has just been fixed. see github/a-ono_/

(I can't post links in this forum?)

Roman Pickl wrote:

this has just been fixed. see github/a-ono_/

(I can't post links in this forum?)

For reference: issue 132

If you need help with posting links, check out this wiki page, or just paste the full URL with a leading "http://" and Redmine's Wiki engine will make it a link for you. :)

thanks for the info (I knew this stuff before), but posting a url like https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor/issues/132 did definitely not work a few days ago!

I installed CKEditor in december. It looked very good at first but then I discovered a problem with uploading small images (<111kb)

Could not upload your file:

-rich_file

Paperclip:Errors::NotIdentifiedbyImageMagickError

update to the newest version: https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor/releases

if the problem persists: post an issue including redmine version, testimage, error-logs to https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor/issues

Roman

thank you I already opened an issue. I will complete the information with the information you mentioned (redmine verions, testimage, error-logs).
https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor/issues/143

Hi,
I have the problem that xml/html code is not shown as text. this is quite annoying when e.g. posting requests etc.

<br>
text
<br>

or
<xml>
test
</xml>

does anyone experience the same issue?
https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor/issues/158

Robert Schneider wrote:

Even {{>toc}} works! I just tried it with typing {{>toc}} into the editor. In HTML mode this gets converted to {{>toc}}. Anyhow this works in detail, it just works. I guess that all macros work, which is quite beautiful. Though I haven't test it. But I can even use the macros of the DMSF plugin.

But what could be the benefits of Textile that you said gets lost?

i doesnt work to me: it looks strange but something works someother not.

if I write (in source mode):

{{toc}} rendered unchanged!
{{>toc}} rendered unchanged!

<h1>Sandbox</h1>

<p>[[Other Wiki Page#anchor]] This Works!</p>

<p>see issue #12 rendered unchanged!</p>

{{version#3}}  rendered unchanged!

<p>document:17 rendered unchanged!</p>

<p>{{macro_list}} This Works!</p>

my Redmine version is 3.2.0.stable and CKEditor 1.1.3

is not clear to me what is rendered in CKEditor/HTML mode: why wiki internal reference operator

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Hi there,
this is my experience:

{{toc}} rendered unchanged!
{{>toc}} rendered unchanged!
<p>{{>toc}}</p> works!

CKEditor 1.2.3
Redmine 4.1.1.stable