VFE Question - Tags getting cleaned up

Aryan

Hi,

Am facing an issue with VFE editor. Probably most of the experts would have faced this while using the VFE.

Useful tags get cleaned up!!!!

The issue is something like this:
Our customer has all press videos hosted in an external site and embeds those videos in TeamSite template using the VFE field. The external site provides the embed code (Like what you get when you view a video in Youtube. YOu can embed them whereever you want). The issue is the code provided by the provider has a tag like this:


Attachment: tag_original.txt


This gets cleaned up by VFE to


Attachment: tag_messedup_by_vfe.txt


This happens when I swap between HTML and WYSIWYG mode. But I cant stop my customers from doing it, as they use the HTML also heavily. So that option is ruled out. I dont want this to happen.

Things tried:
1. in VFE Config XML file:
reducetags="false", mswordfilter="false", hideobject="false", autoclean="false".
2. Ektron developers site -> nothing substantial. Although I should admit that I have not done a through analysis.

Nothing seemed to resolve the issue.

So Question 1:
Can I have VFE ignore this (object, embed and param tags with all their attributes) ? Or is this something done by IE since VFE is I guess is a contenteditable DIV tag?

Question 2:
If this is Done by IE, How can I solve that?


Got fedup finally and tried to massage the code which VFE coverts the original code in to (So that I can suggest this as a workaroung for the customers, until I find a solution). So what I did is, passed the flash vars as URL query string to the flash file in one of the param tag's movie and src attributes. That seemed to work the magic. But VFE becomes so slow that, I am forced to close IE.

Question 3
So does this mean that when ever I embed flash, it does not go well on VFE?

The work aroung I am left with:
Create a custom button on VFE which pops a form with one text field. User inputs the code from the provider in to it. Then I, in the ewebeditproevents.js massage it so that VFE does not mess it up. But here again I am left with the issue of IE slowing up. Eitherways this is NOT a SOLUTION. This is just a workaround. I am looking for solution for this. Like disabling VFE processing the object, param and embed tag. i.e. making VFE ignore these.

Please help.

Cheers!

abiondo

There is a setting that you can change to prevent Visual Format from cleaning the tags for you. I am at home now, so I don't have the docs in front of me. If you open the Visual Format PDF Documentation you can search for the word clean and it might get you close to the config setting.

Before making the change think about what that means. If bad stuff is put in VF it won't clean it up for you and your pages have a higher probability of being out of code compliance.

I would be interested to know how many people are inserting this type of content into VF. For elements like Flash, Flash Video, etc we have the user select the file, pick the heading and generate that code outside of VF for the same reason you mentioned.

hope this helps,
Anthony