ckeditor5-internallink-plugin

A generic ckeditor plugin to create custom html tags containing an identifier to a referenced item. The referencable items are found by an autocomplete input.

Overview

This plugin has the same features as the default link plugin except that it does not create regular link tags.

The HTML-Tags of this plugin are looking as following:

<internallink internallinkid="123">some text</internallink>

Features

• Create and edit links
• Remove links
• Configurable autocomplete to find the referenceable item
• Show a label (title) instead of the item id
• Open the referenced item in a new tab
• If text is marked the link will be added to it. Otherwise the item title with a link will be added to the text.
• Configurable webservice urls to get the required data
• Test mode to test the plugin without having to implement a webservice

How to use

To be able to use this plugin you need a custom build of ckeditor.

Further instructions can be found here: https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/builds/guides/integration/installing-plugins.html

Add the NPM-Package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@samhammer/ckeditor5-internallink-plugin) by running one of the following commands (depending on your build environment):

yarn add @samhammer/ckeditor5-internallink-plugin
npm i @samhammer/ckeditor5-internallink-plugin

e.g.: https://github.com/SamhammerAG/ssp-ckeditor5-build-inline

Note: We prefer yarn so it is only testet with this build tool.

Configuration

Configuration flags:

| Flag name | Description | Example | | --- | --- | --- | | testmode | If set to true the plugin can be tested without autocompleteurl and titleurl | true or false | | autocompleteurl | Configure a json webservice that returns the autocomplete suggestions. The placeholder {searchTerm} is replaced by the search term that is entered to the autocomplete textbox. | http://www.example.com/autocomplete?term={searchTerm} | | titleurl | Configure a json webservice that returns the title for a referenced item. This service is called on editing an existing link. The placeholder {internalLinkId} is replaced by the id of the referenced item. | http://www.example.com/gettitle?itemid={internalLinkId} | | previewurl | The url that is used to open a preview of the referenced item in a new tab. The placeholder {internalLinkId} is replaced by the id of the referenced item. | http://www.google.de?q={internalLinkId} | | axiosInstance | This instance is used to call the autocomplete and the title url. You can use a custom instance e.g if you need interceptors for authentication. | import axios from "axios" and use this axios instance |

Example:

InlineEditor
	.create( editorElement, {
		internallink: {
			testmode: false,
			autocompleteurl: '',
			titleurl: '',
			previewurl: '',
			axiosInstance: undefined
		}
	} )
	.then( ... )
	.catch( ... );

Webservice response data format

This plugin requires webservices that are returning json data. We are using axios to do HTTP-GET requests.

Autocomplete response

[
    { label:  'Text1', value:  '1' },
    { label:  'Text2', value:  '2' }
]

Get title response

Returns a string with the title

How to develop

For local development you can checkout this package to the "packages" folder of our inline build. Just follow these instructions: https://github.com/SamhammerAG/ssp-ckeditor5-build-inline

How to publish

For publishing an npm account that is referenced to the organization is required.

See the following how to:

https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/publishing-a-package

https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/publishing-npm-packages

If everything is configured correctly just count up the version number in our package.json and execute one of the following commands:

yarn publish
npm publish --access public

License

ckeditor5-internallink-plugin is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.