Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx

The missing link editor for Neos

Authors & Sponsors

• Wilhelm Behncke - behncke@sitegeist.de
• Martin Ficzel - ficzel@sitegeist.de

The development and the public-releases of this package was generously sponsored by our customer https://www.cornelsen.de and our employer https://www.sitegeist.de.

Installation

composer require sitegeist/archaeopteryx

Links in Rich Text

Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx is a drop-in replacement for the default Link Editor that is used for Rich Text in Neos. Once installed, you'll notice that the default editor won't show up anymore if you try to add a link to some piece of text.

Instead, a dialog with a lot more options will open:

Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx is fully backwards-compatible. You don't have to worry about links that are already in the system. You can install or uninstall Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx at any point in time while retaining full functionality of all of your links.

Link in Inspector properties

Besides the integration with the Rich Text editor toolbar, Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx also provides an Inspector Editor that can be used as a replacement for Neos.Neos/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor.

In case of the Inspector Editor, Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx won't automatically override the default. Instead, you need to configure it as a properties' inspector editor explicitly:

'Vendor.Site:MyContent':
  # ...
  properties:
    link:
      type: string
      ui:
        inspector:
          # ...
          editor: 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor'

Link Types

Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx ships with 6 built-in Link Types.

Web

The Web Link Type handles external links, so links that begin with http:// or https://.

Document

The Document Link Type handles internal links. The editor offers you a document tree from which you can select documents from within your site. It also offers a search and a node type filter similar to the main document tree in the left side bar of the Neos UI.

The Document Link Type can be configured as follows:

RTE Configuration:

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithSomeRichText':
  # ...
  properties:
    text:
      type: string
      ui:
        inlineEditable: true
        inline:
          editorOptions:
            # ..
            linking:
              #
              # Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx will consider the
              # startingPoint option in the linking
              # section of the RTE configuration.
              #
              # However, the startingPoint option of the
              # extra key 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx' from
              # below takes precedence.
              #
              startingPoint: '/sites/vendor-site/node-2ohiwg6ardhhf'
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx':
                linkTypes:
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Node':
                    startingPoint: '/sites/vendor-site/node-40up2e13w4fd9' # Default: current site node
                    baseNodeType: 'Vendor.Site' # default: Neos.Neos:Document
                    loadingDepth: 8 # default: 4
                    allowedNodeTypes: ['Vendor.Site:Mixin.ReferenceableDocument'] # a list of allowed linkable node types or super types

Inspector Editor Configuration:

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithALinkProperty':
  # ...
  properties:
    link:
      type: string
      ui:
        inspector:
          # ...
          editor: 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor'
          editorOptions:
            linkTypes:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Node':
                startingPoint: '/sites/vendor-site/node-40up2e13w4fd9' # Default: current site node
                baseNodeType: 'Vendor.Site' # default: Neos.Neos:Document
                loadingDepth: 8 # default: 4
                allowedNodeTypes: ['Vendor.Site:Mixin.ReferenceableDocument',] # a list of allowed linkable node types or super types

Asset

The Asset Link Type handles links to files from the Media Module. The editor will offer you a media browser from which you can select any asset from within your site.

Mail To

The MailTo Link Type handles e-mail links, so links that start with mailto:. Links with the mailto: protocol allow not only to specify a recipient, but also to configure a subject, a message body, carbon copy (CC) recipients and blind carbon copy (BCC) recipients for the outgoing e-mail.

The editor for the MailTo Link Type will offer all of those fields. Each field can be deactivated via configuration.

The MailTo Link Type can be configured as follows:

RTE Configuration:

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithSomeRichText':
  # ...
  properties:
    text:
      type: string
      ui:
        inlineEditable: true
        inline:
          editorOptions:
            # ..
            linking:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx':
                linkTypes:
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:MailTo':
                    enabledFields:
                      subject: true
                      cc: true
                      bcc: true
                      body: true

Inspector Editor Configuration:

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithALinkProperty':
  # ...
  properties:
    link:
      type: string
      ui:
        inspector:
          # ...
          editor: 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor'
          editorOptions:
            linkTypes:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:MailTo':
                enabledFields:
                  subject: true
                  cc: true
                  bcc: true
                  body: true

Phone Number

The PhoneNumber link type handles phone links, which start with tel: and allow to start a call. In the editor one selects the country calling code and add the rest of the phone number via an input field. To make it easier to check the added phone number, it is auto formatted in the preview according to the selected country. Via the the node type configuration you can define a defaultCountry and an array of favoredCountries. The defaultCountry is used to prefill the country calling code for new links. The values from the favoredCountries array are used to define a list of preferred countries, which will be placed at the top of the selectable country calling codes in the editor. The used values are ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (wikipedia) country codes. Both configuration settings are placed in the linking respectively linkTypes section of the editorOptions:

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithSomeRichText':
  # ...
  properties:
    text:
      type: string
      ui:
        inlineEditable: true
        inline:
          editorOptions:
            # ..
            linking:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx':
                linkTypes:
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:PhoneNumber':
                    defaultCountry: FR
                    favoredCountries:
                      - DE
                      - AT
                      - CH
                      - FR

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithALinkProperty':
  # ...
  properties:
    link:
      type: string
      ui:
        inspector:
          # ...
          editor: 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor'
          editorOptions:
            linkTypes:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:PhoneNumber':
                defaultCountry: FR
                favoredCountries:
                  - DE
                  - AT
                  - CH
                  - FR

Custom Link

The CustomLink link type allows the editor to add a link in any format. With this you give the editor an escape hatch if the other link types are insufficient for the desired use case. As any other link type the CustomLink can be deactivated via the configuration. If you want to deactivate the CustomLink link type globally you can use a preset and a mixin, which is than used as a supertype in all link generating node types:

Define the preset:

Neos:
  Neos:
    nodeTypes:
      presets:
        properties:
          myVendor:
            noCustomLinkEditor:
              ui:
                inspector:
                  editor: 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor'
                  editorOptions:
                    linkTypes:
                      'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:CustomLink':
                        enabled: false

Use the preset in your link property, mixin or node type

'MyVendor.Base:Mixin.Link':
  abstract: true
  properties:
    link:
      options:
        preset: 'myVendor.noCustomLinkEditor'

Link Options

In RTE context, Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx allows you to set some additional link options. These are:

• Anchor: This will add a string to the hash-section of the URL (the part after #)
• Title: This will set the title attribute of the resulting <a>-Tag
• Open in new window: This will set the target attribute of the resulting <a>-Tag to _blank
• rel="nofollow": This will set the rel attribute of the resulting <a>-Tag to nofollow

Not all Link Types support all of these options however. Here's an overview of what Link Type supports which options:

Link Type	Supported Link Options
Web	Anchor, Title, Open in new window, rel="nofollow"
Document	Anchor, Title, Open in new window, rel="nofollow"
Asset	Title, Open in new window, rel="nofollow"
Mail To	- none -
Phone Number	- none -
Custom	- none -

To enable or disable certain Link Options generally, you can use the linking section of your RTE configuration:

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithSomeRichText':
  # ...
  properties:
    text:
      type: string
      ui:
        inlineEditable: true
        inline:
          editorOptions:
            # ..
            linking:
              anchor: true
              title: true
              relNofollow: true
              targetBlank: true

Disabling Link Type Editors

It is possible to disable one or more link type editors via the configuration for the inspector as well as for inline editable content elements. To achieve this, you use the enabled key for the specific link type editor in the linkTypes section. The default for this key is true.

RTE Configuration

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithSomeRichText':
  # ...
  properties:
    text:
      type: string
      ui:
        inlineEditable: true
        inline:
          editorOptions:
            # ..
            linking:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx':
                linkTypes:
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Asset':
                    enabled: true
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:MailTo':
                    enabled: true
                  # Document node/pages
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Node':
                    enabled: true
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:PhoneNumber':
                    enabled: false
                  # External links
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Web':
                    enabled: true
                  'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:CustomLink':
                    enabled: false

Inspector Editor Configuration

'Vendor.Site:MyAwesomeNodeTypeWithALinkProperty':
  # ...
  properties:
    link:
      type: string
      ui:
        inspector:
          # ...
          editor: 'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx/Inspector/Editors/LinkEditor'
          editorOptions:
            linkTypes:
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Asset':
                enabled: true
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:MailTo':
                enabled: true
              # Document node/pages
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Node':
                enabled: true
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:PhoneNumber':
                enabled: false
              # External links
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:Web':
                enabled: true
              'Sitegeist.Archaeopteryx:CustomLink':
                enabled: false

Contribution

We will gladly accept contributions. Please send us pull requests.

LICENSE

see LICENSE