Is there any documentation on the Advanced Editor and/or the Rich Editor?

frankwbrown

Is it a bit mystifying to you how to use the editor to format your comments?
Wouldn't it be nice to have some documentation as a reference?

frankwbrown

I've been doing a little research and I'm posting this discussion to share what I've found out. If MFP staff want to sanction, disallow, correct, critique or clarify any of this, please do so.

• The MFP community forum uses a host/product called Vanilla Forums.
• The editor used prior to this latest change was called the Advanced Editor. There is a new editor called Rich Editor. MFP's intent was to switch to the Rich Editor because the Advanced editor is now deprecated in the Vanilla Forums product and the lack of support would likely become a problem at some point.
• Due to some of the issues MFP is wrestling with, they have reverted to the Advanced Editor, but this is hopefully temporary.

Add comments and/or links here to share what you've found on how to use either of these editors.

frankwbrown

** Advanced Editor (the old editor that is likely going away)

Info on how to use this editor: https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/12-advanced-editor

Not everyone will be interested in this, but this editor supports the use of BBCode:
only a subset of what you'll find here: https://www.bbcode.org/reference.php

frankwbrown

** Rich Editor (the new editor that will likely be replacing the Advanced Editor)

Info on how to use this editor: https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/13-rich-editor

Not everyone will be interested in this, but this editor supports the use of markdown macros:
https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/13-rich-editor#markdown-macros
https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/