YUI rich text editor cannot be added/deleted properly within nested repeats in certain cases

I am running into a peculiar case that involves using the YUI rich text editor.

When I incorporate the YUI text editor within my nested repeat structure (by including <xf:textarea ref="." mediatype="text/html" />), include a schema reference in the <xf:model> tag, and then try to insert a sub-section after form load, I get the following error:


Exception in client-side code.

    * Message: this._getDoc().body is undefined
    * File: http://localhost:8080/orbeon/ops/yui/editor/editor.js
    * Line number: 6230


However, if I do one of the following:

1) Change all instances of <xf:textarea ref="." mediatype="text/html" /> to <xf:input ref="." />
2) Remove the schema attribute from <xf:model>


the insertion of sub-sections works just fine.

I'm wondering if this is a bug within the editor.js file or a problem with my code structure. Attached to this message is my XHTML file and XSD file, for bug reproduction purposes.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer suggestions!


---Philip


test_YUI.xhtml

test_YUI.xsd

Philip,

Philip.Cantin wrote

When I incorporate the YUI text editor within my nested repeat structure (by including <xf:textarea ref="." mediatype="text/html" />), include a schema reference in the <xf:model> tag, and then try to insert a sub-section after form load, I get the following error:


Exception in client-side code.

    * Message: this._getDoc().body is undefined
    * File: http://localhost:8080/orbeon/ops/yui/editor/editor.js
    * Line number: 6230

Thank you for reporting this with an attached test case. This is indeed a bug, but it isn't an easy one to fix. I added this to the bug base and added some more details in the bug report (link below).

In the meantime, I'd recommend you not to use the RTE inside a repeat if the number of iteration can change dynamically. One more reason not to do that is that the RTE is pretty heavy, and creating many RTE on the page will make the page more sluggish. So I'd recommend you just show the data in the repeat, and provide a "Edit" button that opens an <xxforms:dialog> that contains an RTE to edit the data. This way you'll have just one RTE on your page.

http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313690&group_id=168&atid=350207

Alex

Alex,

Alessandro Vernet wrote

In the meantime, I'd recommend you not to use the RTE inside a repeat if the number of iteration can change dynamically. One more reason not to do that is that the RTE is pretty heavy, and creating many RTE on the page will make the page more sluggish. So I'd recommend you just show the data in the repeat, and provide a "Edit" button that opens an <xxforms:dialog> that contains an RTE to edit the data. This way you'll have just one RTE on your page.

http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313690&group_id=168&atid=350207

Alex

I'll be sure to try that for the time being. The form we're working on won't have very many RTE's on it, so I don't think performance will be an issue.

Thanks for the advice!


~Philip

Hi Alex,

I see this is scheduled for the next release and assigned to Erik.  Any progress on it?  We would like to be able go ahead with RTEs in repeats.  In the mean time we'll look at the dialog option but given what we're trying to accomplish it's no ideal.

Can you provide some more details about what you think is going on? I don't mind digging in.  It seems like it fails pretty early on in the process.

/r

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This is probably a reasonable stop gap .. although managing the binding to the text area might be a bit difficult.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/editor/multi_editor_source.html

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