How to use JCE editor in front end

I've looked and looked but cannot see how to set up Chronoforms so front end users can use the JCE editor. I know I'm missing something but can't find it.
How do you set that up in front end and or backend for editing?
It is selected as my default editor in the control panel.
Thanks for your help....

Hi StuckInForms,

ChronoForms v4 would pick up the default Joomla! editor - I don't believe that this is possible in CFv5 using the standard Textarea element.

What probably is possible - though I haven't tried it, is to use a Custom Code element and use that to create a textarea using the JCE Editor (or any other editor of your choice). I'll try to find time to test this out.

Bob

Thanks Bob,
Having JCE available in the new version is especially important when front end users need some of it's power to manage information and display it effectively.
This gap in the code I hope gets filled pretty quickly, I'll stand by to see what solutions are available until the feature becomes built in like it evidently was in v4.
Best regards,
Chrsi

Hi Chris,

The TinyMCE Editor should be available for a textarea by enabling the WYSYWYG Editor in the textarea settings, But It's not working on my test site with Joomla! 3.4.1 so that may be a bug in the current version of CFv5.

If I understand correctly the JCE Editor that you are looking for is this Joomla! extension?

Bob

Hi Bob,
That is the correct component, JCE, a content editor for Joomla, in the link.
Thanks for your help.
Chris

Hi! I also would like to use the JCE editor in a form. With JCE you can customize the editor for specific components or usergroups. JCE is my default editor. tinyMCE is even disabled on the site. But the Chronoforms still shows this editor.

Is there a way to use the JCE editor?

Hi jj135,

I think that ChronoForms v5 only supports TinyMCE directly now :-(

What you can do is to add the code to link the JCE editor to the textarea. I'm not sure what the code is to do that - probably a few lines of JavaScript.

Bob

Ok, to bad. Any idea if this is going to be possible in the (near) future?

Could you point me in the right direction of doing this with Javascript? Not sure where to start...

If that does not work: Is there any way to control the butoons used on the editor? I just want bold, italic, lists and maybe some more. But not all the other options....

This worked for me:

I created a custom field with:

This worked for me:

<?php
$editor =JFactory::getEditor();
$params = array( 'smilies'=> '0' ,
		 'style'  => '1' ,  
		 'layer'  => '0' , 
		 'table'  => '0' ,
		 'clear_entities'=>'0'
		 );
echo $editor->display( 'introtest', '', '400', '400', '20', '20', false, $params );
?>

Where 'introtest' will be used by in the form data.

Bu this way I can not use 'validation' or 'label top' or any other setting in a 'normal' textarea. Is there a way to add this?

Kind regards,
Jip