Making Snippet Call from within doc content when TinyMCE is installed

This surely is a common problem, but I’m just now running into it because I always edit HTML directly without the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. However, if you are using the TinyMCE editor, it has the nasty habit of destroying my Snippet calls whenever it flips between HTML and WYSIWYG mode. The "&"’s become the HTML code equivalent:

The person using the site needs the flexibility of the WYSIWYG editor, primarily to insert and upload images. For now, I put the Snippet call into another field (introtext) that does not use the TinyMCE editor.

Are there other work-arounds for this? It must be confusing for new users to attempt to use a Snippet when the Snippet’s input arguments are corrupted by the editor.

How do some pages suppress the TinyMCE editor (e.g. the login pages on the default site)?

Thanks.

Hi there,

you could set the TinyMce plugin-settings for Entity Encoding -> Raw
then use a snippet ( http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=31765.0 ) to encode stray "&" to get valid xhtml-code...

to disable the wysiwyg-editor for certain documents, you just tick-off "RichText" in the page settings.

one thing i run into sometimes, and not sure how to handle it, is an unwanted wrapping paragraph-tag around the snippet-call...but probably snippets are just not meant to be placed like that in the content-area, rather than extencively using TVs to separate rich-text content and snippet-calls...

cheers,j

Thanks -- I was missing the Rich Text thing.

For pages like blogs I use templates with extra tv’s! E.g. upperContent and lowerContent where I call snippets and things I dont want to be edited or looped by tinyMCE!

It’s a pain, though, when you want to turn the page over to a user who needs the RTE. I’m pretty sure I read a way to keep the RTE on but not have it muck up snippets, but I can never remember what it is.

but I can never remember what it is.

:( That’s too bad. I’ve been editing straight html for so long, I didn’t realize what a goofball problem it was to put in Snippet calls like that. Thanks, mrhaw... TV’s to the rescue!