Format writing
Umantis supports a variety of ways of creating and formatting texts and written work, such as job postings and events.
WYSIWYG text editor
You can use the text editor to format the text entered. To do this, use the buttons in the icon bar. The formatting displayed in the editor corresponds to the final result after saving (= What You See Is What You Get)
Important notes:
- This functionality is only available for newer browser versions. Only normal input fields (without text editor) are displayed in older browser versions.
- Note that the editor does not appear with the setting “Input field type: text field” (= single-line). Only from the “Input field type: TextArea 2Rows” (= multi-line) setting onwards is the WYSIWYG text editor working. The input field type for the respective text block can be specified by clicking on the configuration mode
. - Languages currently supported are (cf. with Isocode): en, hr, pl, sk, hu, it, de, fr, ro, zh cn, tr, sl, ru, pt pt, nl, ko, ja, fi, es el, cs, bg
WYSIWYG text editor activation
The “What You See Is What You Get” text editor is only available for fields which allow Word/HTML formatting. If you want to deactivate or activate the editor for certain fields, follow the following steps:
- Navigate to the appropriate field
- Click on “configure view” to enter the configuration mode.
- At the relevant field, click on
- Change the corresponding setting at Switch off HTML editor and place a checkmark there if you longer wish to use the editor.
WYSIWYG text editor functions
The icon bar of the editor gives you some options for the presentation of the entered texts:
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1 Insert HTML 2 Format templates 3 Bold 4 Italic 5 Underlined 6 Crossed out 7 Bullets 8 Numbering 9 Decrease indent |
10 Enlarge indent 11 Insert image
12 Insert video
13 Insert / remove link 14 Change alignment 15 Insert / edit table |
Hints & Troubleshooting
Please note that Umantis allows the use of the “What You See Is What You Get” editor for all fields that were previously already HTML-compatible (before the release of the text editor). As a general rule, users are encouraged by the new editor to format/design texts. Accordingly, HTML formatting is saved in the background as well. However, this stored content may in certain circumstances not be correctly interpreted in other media (for instance in print templates). There the content may be displayed without formatting and include HTML tags.
If HTML tags are displayed in an email you originally wrote as “plain text” (via normal text field), for instance, we recommend the following solutions:
- Explicit use of HTML emails — if this is not possible: switching off the WYSIWYG text editor for fields from which variables are used for emails
- Workaround: see Modification of variables for a specific issue
Allow images from external sources (not recommended)
Note: See the instructions in the Configure data fields — HTML security restriction.
In the case of fields that allow the integration of images using WYSIWYG editor, the following restriction options exist in configuration mode under HTML security restriction:
- with restriction (recommended setting)
- This restriction only allows the integration of images that have already been uploaded into your Umantis solution. This restriction prevents integration from external sources.
- without restriction (setting not recommended)
- This setting allows you to integrate images from external sources. It is not recommended to allow or integrate external content as this may come from dubious sources. In this way, damaging or copyrighted content may be integrated by mistake.
Notes on the use of HMTL tags
Please note that basically only HTML5 tags are supported. Additionally, not all tags are supported by us here either. Of course, we support all tags that you can use directly via the WYSIWYG editor. In addition, other tags can be used via the text input, but here you have to reckon with the fact that not all tags are supported by us, or in some cases not even a saving of these tags is allowed.
- p
- div
- span
- br
- table
- td
- tr
- th
- thead
- tfoot
- tbody
- a
- img
- pre
- b
- strong
- i
- h1 - h6
- ul
- li
- ol
- u
- sup
- sub
- hr
- em
- del
- head
- body
- form
- input
- title
- alt
- iframe
Important:
Please note, however, that not all attributes of these HTML tags are necessarily allowed (for example, the “class” attribute, which is used very extensively by MS products during HTML exports).
*You cannot use the Alt tag within an anchor, as this is not valid HTML. The Alt tag can only be used for the image tag. You can use title tags with anchors.
Examples:
<a class="c-button" href="?v4login=sso&sso=true" title="anchor" style="color: red">Login with SingleSignOn(SSO)</a>
<img src="/PublicDocuments/101/ShowDocument/" alt="SMART - Zielkriterien" style="max-width: 100%;"/>
Formatting commands
| Formatting | Insert: | Visible: |
| Bold | * Text * | Text |
| Italic | _Text_ | Text |
| Bullets | (-) Text (-) | • Text |
| Combination options | *_Text_* | Text |
| *_Text_Text_* | Text Text | |
| _Text*Text*_ | Text Text |
Note:
The following applies for all formatting:
- there must be a space before the first ( and after the last )
- there must be a space before the first * and after the last *
- there must be a space before the first _ and after the last _
Make sure that the texts to be formatted are not broken up with “Enter” but are keyed in as continuous text. If you need a paragraph in bulleted text, this can be entered as normal with “Enter”. Alternatively, you can also use HTML commands in the job posting text fields.
Linking email addresses and telephone numbers
It’s easier for users to send you an email by clicking on your linked email address as they don’t have to copy your email address.
Use the following formatting:
- Emails
- mailto:your-email-address@email.com (will be to e.g. support@umantis.com).
- Telephone numbers
- callto:your telephone number (will be to e.g. +41 71 250 20 20)