Adding a Wysiwyg editor to Open Atrium

[WARNING: This blog is a bit geeky]

We’ve been using Open Atrium recently and one of the trending issues with both Drupal and OA is that there isn’t a built in rich text editor. It turns out it’s not that difficult to add in, I thought I’d post the steps below for any wandering Interterer:

1. ) Download the Wysiwyg module for Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

2. ) Download your editor of choice, I went with TinyMCE (but secretly I’m waiting for CKeditor to be compatible, don’t tell TinyMCE): http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

3. ) Unzip the Wysiwyg module and upload it to your server in the modules folder: /sites/all/modules/contrib/

4. ) Unzip the editor and upload that to a new folder here: /sites/all/libraries/

5. ) Go to your Open Atrium site admin: admin/modules and enable the Wysiwyg module

6. ) Go to: admin/settings and click on the Wysiwyg configuration link

7. ) Select your editor from the drop downs

That should be it, if you visit your OA site the content editor sections should all now be using the editor.


1 Response to Adding a Wysiwyg editor to Open Atrium

  1. Zahir
    September 28th, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Thanks, this was awesome and straight forward. Just to point out, none of the icons ie Bold, Italics etc will show up unless you go to admin/settings/wysiwyg/TinyMCE and enable them under buttons.

    Cheers

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