Paradigm Text Editor

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Last updated: Jun 17, 2021 by Diane Momongan (Unlicensed)
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Overview

Some fields within Paradigm use a text editor known as TinyMCE. This will help you format text to improve the appearance of your content. This is commonly used in the communication events, editing for emails, and student reviews. This knowledge article will provide a detailed description of this feature that may be helpful in your content formatting experience within Paradigm.

Complexity: Medium

Assumptions

  • You have the minimum Permission Level to edit notes/fields, create communication events which require you to format contents as required within Paradigm.

  • You have basic understanding of formatting content using text editors.

 

Key Terms and Concepts

Rich Text Editor

This feature can be found in most areas of the system where text can be entered and you have the option to improve the appearance of your content. The toolbar contains icons for editing and formatting your text.

 

TinyMCE Interface

 

Implications

NOTE: Content is saved in HTML format. When inserting images, the system will not embed a copy of the image. It is highly recommended to always keep the images in your institution’s images hosting site, as it will impact the image view in the future if the file for some reasons has been deleted or removed.

 

Workflow

Paradigm Editor Workflow

 

step 1 Select the content you want to format.

Navigate to a page within Paradigm and locate the contents you want to format.

INFO: Only fields with TinyMCE can be formatted.

 

 

In the example above, the user is trying to edit and format the content of the Notes: field of a student from Student > Student Details > Edit Details.

 

step 2 Input content and start formatting.

NOTE: The character count showing below the field name has a few characteristics to be aware of when editing content.

  • It counts the characters of the HTML source code, not the letters on the screen. So the text “hi” is not equal to “hi” (bold formatting). This is because the editor needs to include hidden instructions to present the text as bold. These instructions are included in the character count.

  • Due to performance issues TinyMCE and many other plugins we looked through disable looking for changes to text as the user types. Instead the count is updated whenever the content has finished changing. This is often detected by a mouse click or navigating to another field. Clicking outside the editing area will trigger this update to the character count.

 

 

 

 

TinyMCE in Paradigm has the following editing features on its toolbar:

 

 

1 Undo and Redo – let you reverse and restore your formatting.

2 Insert, Edit or Remove Links – let you insert a link and unlink the inserted links. In inserting links, you will be prompted with the screen below:

 

 

3 Insert/Edit Images – see Inserting images

4 Horizontal line – lets you add a divider to organise your content.

5 Special Character --lets you add these special characters.

 

 

6 Text Formatting – let you format your texts into Bold, Italic, and Strikethrough.

7 Lists formatting, Increase Indent – let you set your lists into a Numbered list or Bullet list. The third button is for indention.

8 Blockquote – lets you insert a quotation of text from another source.

9 Formats – let you format your content with the following options:

10 Paragraph – lets you format the paragraphs of your content.

 

 

how to Insert images

 

 

 

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