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A rich text editor sounds simple until you need it in multiple places.
One screen may need a basic notes field with only a few formatting options. Another may need a fuller editing experience for templates, documentation, or client-facing content. Once that happens, the real challenge is not embedding an editor. It is making it reusable and manageable across the system.
That is what our Kyo Logic rich text editor was built to solve.
Our rich text editor is built using the Summernote library.
That gives it two practical advantages. Summernote is well-documented, so its options and behaviors are clearly defined. It is also designed to be simple, which makes configuration changes much easier than with heavier editor libraries.
In a real FileMaker system, it is common to need more than one rich text editor.
You might want a basic toolbar in one place and a much more complete editing experience somewhere else. Our editor was designed with that in mind. You can create a large number of standalone configurations, each pointing to a different field.
That means one configuration can be kept minimal, while another can offer a much broader set of tools.
The communication between the editor and FileMaker has been abstracted out.
As you add configurations, you do not need to keep creating new scripts or field-level plumbing. The editor updates the connected field in the background as the user types, which makes the component easier to reuse and smoother to work with.
The value here is not just rich text editing. It is in having a repeatable pattern.
Instead of building a one-off editor every time a new use case appears, you can start from a component designed to support multiple fields, multiple configurations, and different levels of editing complexity.
Because Summernote also has a fairly extensive API, there is room to extend the editor further if your solution needs more than the default setup.
We are making this rich text editor available as a free download.
If you need a more flexible way to add rich-text editing to your FileMaker solution, this is a practical starting point built for real-world reuse.
Let’s talk about how we can help you streamline, scale, or innovate—on your terms.
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