TinyMCE Editor

The rich text editor used throughout Management Center for HCL Commerce has changed from CKEditor to TinyMCE.

Management Center for HCL Commerce has TinyMCE editor version 6.8.4 available for customers but it is not available by default. You can enable the TinyMCE by running the following query:

https://hostname:8000/lobtools/cmc/Configure?featureName=ckeditor&featureEnabled=false
Where, hostname:8000 is domain and port used to launch the Management Center

Throughout Management Center, some objects contain fields where you can edit and format text. For example, you can create a bullet list or add HTML code to enhance text display on the storefront.

The following fields support the TinyMCE editor in the Management Center for rich text editing:

Table 1. List of tools supported in Management Center
Tool	Fields
Catalogs tool	The Long description field in the products properties. The Long description field in the properties for a master category. The Long description field in the properties for a sales category. The Long description field in the properties for a rule-based sales category.
Marketing tool	The Email content field in the properties for an email template. The Content field in the properties for marketing content.
Promotions tool	The Customer viewable long description field in the properties for promotion under the Descriptions tab.
Commerce Composer tool	The Layout field in the properties of the Text Editor widget.

The following image displays the editing options available with the TinyMCE editor.

For more information about the various options in the toolbar, see Editing text in the TinyMCE editor.

Advantages of TinyMCE editor

TinyMCE editor has similar features as CKEditor except for the following features that are not available in the CKEditor:

You can insert emojis in the long descriptions.
You can insert or edit the media.

The following table lists the capabilities of the TinyMCE editor.

Editor features
Editor features	TinyMCE
Undo	✓
Redo	✓
Bold	✓
Italic	✓
Underline	✓
Strikethrough	✓
Superscript	✓
Subscript	✓
Clear format	✓
Numbered list	✓
Bulleted list	✓
Decrease indent	✓
Increase indent	✓
Block Quote	✓
Align left	✓
Align center	✓
Align right	✓
Justify	✓
Text direction from left to right	✓
Text direction from right to left	✓
Insert/Edit link	✓
Anchor	✓
Insert/Edit image	✓
Insert/Edit media	✓
Insert special character	✓
Insert Emojis	✓
Font	✓
Font size	✓
Paragraph format	✓
Text color	✓
Background color	✓
Edit/View source code	✓
Full screen	✓
Preview	✓
Print	✓
New Document	✓
Cut	✓
Copy	✓
Paste	✓
Paste as plain text	✓
Find and replace	✓
Replace	✓
Select all	✓
Insert horizontal line	✓
Insert nonbreaking space	✓
Insert date and time	✓
Insert/Remove Numbered list	✓
Insert/Remove Bulleted list	✓
Insert/delete table	✓
Word count	✓
URL link	✓
Insert document bookmark	✓
Style (for example, Coding, Red title)	✓
Show block	✓
About TinyMCE	✓