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Key: MDL-16924
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Priority: Minor Minor
Assignee: Mathieu Petit-Clair
Reporter: Mark Drechsler
Votes: 1
Watchers: 1
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Moodle

Allow HTML editor to be used when editing back-end files

Created: 18/Oct/08 11:00 AM   Updated: 12/Dec/08 07:01 AM
Component/s: HTML Editor
Affects Version/s: 1.9.3
Fix Version/s: None

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Database: Any
Participants: Mark Drechsler, Mathieu Petit-Clair and Tiffany DeJager
Security Level: None
Affected Branches: MOODLE_19_STABLE


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We import content into Moodle courses from WebCT 4 using the conversion tool available on moodle.org, and although it works well on most things, when it pulls across HTML pages it creates them as HTML files with links pointing to them rather than as Moodle Resources. This works, but what it doesn't do is let you edit the files in HTML - if you click on the 'edit' button next to the file when viewing in the Files area then you get a raw HTML view. I know there are probably very good reasons for having this happen (i.e. to keep people from attempting to structure nested HTML pages inside Moodle), but it means that any courses converted like this need to have the HTML copied out into something else for editing, or for the author to work in raw HTML.

Maybe this isn't an issue in the longer term as these courses will gradually fade away, but if there are any other import tools that load content like this then it will continue to be painful (maybe IMS packages work this way too - not sure). Anyway, it would seem like a simple change to enable the HTML editor on any HTML files accessed and edited through the Files area rather than showing them in raw HTML format. Could get cute and make it a configurable site-wide setting set by default to 'off' if there were concerns about people doing this as a part of 'normal' operations.

All feedback welcome



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Tiffany DeJager added a comment - 12/Dec/08 07:01 AM
I agree! Glad to see someone else noticed this need too!