SOLVED: cms_selflink - it's not that user-friendly?

[Katya]

Hello,

I'm building my first CMSMS site and I'm finding it very user-friendly. HOWEVER I don't understand why, in the back end, when you link some text to an internal page it inserts all the {cms_selflink page= } malarkey. My clients will be updating their own text (hence the need for a CMS) and to have your hyperlinked text replaced by a bit of code just doesn't seem very user friendly to me.

Is there anyway to change it or is there a plugin that I can install that will link to internal files differently?

Thanks

[KO]

If you update to latest TinyMCE editor it can be done.

Try that.

[Katya]

Thanks KO. I have the latest version of TinyMCE (2.4.5) that came installed with CMSMS - do you mean this version? Or the latest version from the TinyMCE site - in which case, how do I install it as it isn't a CMSMS module?

[Katya]

Update - I have installed the latest version of TinyMCE and it seems to be working OK. However I can't find how to create an internal link without the {cms_selflink}. Do I have to configure something?

[KO]

OK... good.

Then see "extensions" -> "tiny" -> "Advanced" -> "CMS-linker link-style:"

[Katya]

Fantastic! For some reason it was selected already but not working; I had to select cms_selflink style, then select again and it worked.

Thanks for your help

[faglork]

Hello,

I'm building my first CMSMS site and I'm finding it very user-friendly. HOWEVER I don't understand why, in the back end, when you link some text to an internal page it inserts all the {cms_selflink page= } malarkey. My clients will be updating their own text (hence the need for a CMS) and to have your hyperlinked text replaced by a bit of code just doesn't seem very user friendly to me.

Because you do not understand the principle behind that.

A cms_selflink will point to the target page even when the location of that page gets changed (restructuring the page hierarchy). But when you use "real" links, you have to keep track of the links by hand, which can get very tedious, as soon as you have a couple of pages to manage.

So, cms_selflink is the "user friendly" method.

If you switch that off, you are actually making it harder for your clients.

hth,
Alex