Community Server/Evolution ships using the TinyMCE editor. There are different flavors of the editor that provide varying levels of functionality. We refer to the flavors as Plain Text, Standard, and Enhanced. Out of the box, Community Server and Evolution use the TinyMCE editor in Standard mode. Individual users can set the content editor for their account in the user profile.

Follow these steps to change the default content editor for all new accounts:

  1. Open your CommunityServer.config file in the root of your site. On a default install, the root of your site is located at <installdrive>:\program files\telligent\community server 2008.5\web for CS or <installdrive>:\program files\telligent\community server evolution\web for Evolution.
  2. Look for the <editors> section
  3. Under the entry for the “standard” editor, remove the “default=true” attribute:

    a.   <editor name="Standard"
               type="CommunityServer.Controls.TinyMCE,
               CommunityServer.Controls" default="true" 
               resourceName="EditorType_Standard_Name">
  4. Under the entry for the “enhanced” editor, add the “default=true” attribute.
  5. Restart the application in IIS and the enhanced editor should be the default editor for all new users to the site.

Community Server/Evolution provide a pluggable framework for editors that allows a developer to plug in an alternative editor to the ones shipped with the product. For example, some folks are partial to the FCK-editor so we built an FCK-editor wrapper so that it could be used in Community Server/Evolution.