HTML Editor

Use

You can use the HTML editor to create or change texts with simple formatting online. This is a 'what you see is what you get' editor.

Prerequisites

For an overview of the supported browsers, see the corresponding section of the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) on SAP Service Marketplace . If you use a different browser, the text editor appears instead.

The repository that the file is stored in must support properties, or the application property service ( properties ) must be active. For more information, see Application Property Service .

To have the HTML files that you create with the HTML Editor displayed using the portal styles, the HTML filter for portal style sheets with the name portalStyle must be active for the repository. For more information, see HTML Filter for Portal Stylesheets .

Note

You can only use the HTML editor to edit HTML files that you created online. If you edit an HTML file locally, you will not be able to edit it with the HTML editor later on.

Features

The HTML editor can have a different functional scope depending on where it appears. The following description refers to full functionality. In some places, only some of these functions are available.

Symbol	Function
	For displaying a preview in a new browser window
	Cut
	Copy
	Paste

Note

Use the context menu (accessed with the secondary mouse button) to undo or repeat the last action.

Symbol	Function
	Font style To format an entire paragraph (for example, as H1 ), select the paragraph by clicking three times, and then select the required style. The styles that can be selected are defined throughout the entire portal. The styles that can be selected are defined throughout the entire portal.


	Font size
	Font color
	Background color
	Bulleted list
	Numbered list
	Indent
	Outdent
	Left-aligned
	Center-aligned
	Right-aligned

Symbol	Function
	For inserting an image. If you choose this icon, you reach a dialog box for selecting an image from a KM folder.

	For inserting a link to an item in a KM folder. Select the text that you want to appear as a link, and choose the icon for inserting a KM link ( ). You reach a dialog box that you can use for navigating to the target item.

	For inserting a Web link. You reach a dialog box that you can use for entering the target URL. You can define whether the target object is to be opened in a new browser window.

	For inserting special characters.
	For inserting horizontal lines.

Note

To change a link or image, select the item in question and then choose the corresponding symbol in the status bar again.

If you want an image to be a link, insert the image first, then click it, and then choose the icon for inserting a KM link ( ) or the icon for inserting a Web link ( ).

Symbol	Function
	For inserting a table. You reach a dialog box that you can use for setting the table properties.

	For modifying a table. To change the properties of the entire table, select the table by clicking its frame, and then choose the icon for modifying a table ( ) To change the properties of an individual cell, select the text in the cell and then choose the icon for modifying a table ( ). Note the following: Width : This setting always affects the entire table column. Padding : The setting in the cell properties overrides the setting in the table properties. To change the properties of a column or row, select the text in a cell and then choose the icon for modifying a table ( ). Check the relevant checkbox in order to apply your settings to the entire column or row.

Note

You can insert and delete rows and columns using the context menu, which you access using the secondary mouse button.

Note

Use the arrow at the end of the symbol bar to increase the size of the HTML editor so that it takes up the entire width of the current window or to reduce it to the original size.