Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer's Reference Guide

Overriding User Customization
Letting Users Customize the Toolbar
You might allow users to customize eWebEditPro, but later need to implement a
global change to the editor. For example, you may decide that users cannot edit
HTML code.
To override all user customization, follow these steps.
1. Make the necessary changes in the configuration data on the server.
2. Change the value of the interface name attribute. For example, if the
attribute’s value is beta, you could change it to beta1.
WARNING! If you override user customization, users lose all changes made to eWebEditPro
toolbars and menu configurations. If the users preferred those customizations,
they must redo them.
To understand how changing the interface name attribute of the configuration
data updates all user configurations, read “Determining Which Configuration
Data to Use” on page 256.
Determining Which Configuration Data to Use
When a user launches eWebEditPro, the following events occur.
1. The browser reads the configuration data on the server to determine which
data to use. The file name is the value of the interface name attribute.
2. The browser looks for a customization file with that name in the temporary
folder on the user’s computer. If it finds one, that configuration data
determines which toolbars to display.
If the browser does not find a customization file on the user’s computer, it
defaults to the interface section of the configuration data on the server to
determine which toolbars to display.
Changes to config.xml Have No Effect
Sometimes, you might change the configuration data but the changes have no
effect. For example, you add buttons to the section of the
configuration data, but the toolbar does not display them when eWebEditPro
loads in the browser.
This table suggests how to fix this problem.
Possible Cause Resolution
Wrong configuration file - You did not modify the
configuration file that is being loaded. It is quite
common to edit the wrong file.
Double check all the paths and the config parameter to
ensure that you are using the correct configuration.
Search for all config.xml files on the server.
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