Force plain text on abstract submission [solved]

[albertosa]

Hello!

During the submission process, in the abstract field, I found that when I paste the abstract text it also adds some junk format code about font definitions, colours, margins, height... that was hidden on the MS Word document. It is very annoying!

I'm wondering if there is a way to convert or to force to plain text the input on the abstract field, since we normally don't need html formatting on this occasion.

Tkx. in advance.

[jmacgreg]

Hi Albertrosa,

You can disable the tinyMCE function for the abstract box by editing plugins/generic/tinymce/TinyMCEPlugin.inc.php. Find the following line, and comment it out or delete it:

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$fields[] = 'abstract';

You may have to do a hard refresh of the page to see the change. And of course, you'll have to track this change and account for it in future upgrades.

Cheers,
James

[albertosa]

Done!

[tshore]

A quick question. I am going through and disabling TinyMCE for a number of fields, especially addresses, etc. where TinyMCE seems to only cause problems (ie. double spacing addresses, etc.). I was trying to decide whether or not to leave TinyMCE available for abstracts. I was thinking yes, but then I wondered if it would cause problems when I went to export the metadata for the printed program. Will the export utility strip out the HTML? Or will I be left with a big mess when it comes time for my conference organizers to prepare their programs?

Thank you.

[jmacgreg]

Hi Trudy,

I think this will only be an issue if they add HTML themselves. You might want to try a test, though.

Cheers,
James