Rich Finn

Just received a nice little sting...

I love the Telerik Editor for MOSS, so I use it almost on every page.  I wanted to perform an upgrade to the 4.4.0.0 version, but I just got slammed by a big gotcha!

I've always followed the Telerik documentation for adding the editor to a page layout.  But I must say, after today, I don't agree at all!

When Telerik releases a new version of the RadEditor, they change the version number on the assembly, naturally.  The downfall of this is that because of the new version number, you have to go to every page layout and change the version number in the Register tag at the top of the page.  This stinks!

To keep yourself from having this same problem, place the control reference in the web config file of the sites that you are using the RadEditor.  This will allow you to update the control reference only once next time, not on every single page layout file.

This should be done for all Telerik controls used on page layouts...

Here's another little thing that might be worth doing:
The image browser in the RadEditor for MOSS doesn't allow you to traverse the site structure like the OOB MOSS RichTextEditor, therefore you can't choose images from the SiteCollectionImages library.  To fix this, open the editor's tools file (located at \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\wpresources\RadEditorSharePoint\4.1.0.0__1f131a624888eeed\RadControls\Editor) and rename the ImageManager tool to MOSSImageManager.  Got this gem on the Telerik forum...