Sharepoint 2010-content editable web part

Question

We are trying to create a web part where the user can edit the content directly, just like using a wiki page. I understand we can use content editor web part for this purpose but we would like to give users more freedom to enter whatever they want. Does anybody know how this can be done?

Thanks very much in advance.

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Little fish 920

Answer 1

Wat type of content is the user wants to edit, either SP List or Library Items. If he wants to edit the list, you can go for ModalDialogs  based Forms (like EditForm.aspx) rather than webparts.

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Naren.

Answer 2

Thanks very much for you reply neran27. The content will probably mostly be rich text or images. We are not expecting to manuplating on lists or items from there.

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Little fish 920

Answer 3

Hello,

If you are using the publishing site then you can also use the Page content control in your publishing page layout

<PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField ID="RichHtmlField1" FieldName="PublishingPageContent" HasInitialFocus="True" MinimumEditHeight="400px" runat="server"/>

This control have similar effect as content editor webpart , you can also add the webpart inside the page content control.

you can add the content by editing the page 

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Answer 4

Hi Hiren,

Thanks very much for your input. I am a little confused about the usage of the rich text control. It looks like it takes the content from an existing page, but what I need is a separate region where the user can input rich text, just like a content editor web part. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks.

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Little fish 920

Answer 5

Hi Littlefish920,

From your description, you can use SharePoint Content Editor Web Part or custom web part and use rich text control, both of them allow users to add rich text, images or tables. Based on my understanding, the Editing tools in wiki page is just like that in CEWP, if you want to achieve editing text like in wiki page, you can choose to use CEWP, and rich text control also provide special format used to create hypertext documents, you can edit the text in rich format, more information about rich text control:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms976293.aspx

Thanks,

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Qiao Wei

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