Initialize document

[amilich]

How can you set the initial contents of the Y.doc with some existing ProseMirror node view?

[dmonad]

Hi @amilich,

y-prosemirror takes over the document content of the ProseMirror editor after it has been bound to it. The "initial" content, that you set when creating the ProseMirror editor must be ignored in order to converge content with other clients.

You can set the "initial" content after you created the editor. It should be empty. But please also have a look at this question in order to understand why it is not a good idea to work with "initial" content: yjs/yjs-demos#16

[amilich]

Thank you, this is really helpful Andrew

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM Kevin Jahns ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @amilich <https://github.com/amilich>, y-prosemirror takes over the document content of the ProseMirror editor after it has been bound to it. The "initial" content, that you set when creating the ProseMirror editor must be ignored in order to converge content with other clients. You can set the "initial" content after you created the editor. It should be empty. But please also have a look at this question in order to understand why it is not a good idea to work with "initial" content: yjs/yjs-demos#16 <yjs/yjs-demos#16> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAOWUCWKD7IV3BHBDHIS6L3RMXYPZANCNFSM4MGI7IBQ> .

[andrey-skl]

Hello everyone and sorry for maybe dumb question. I've read your messages and yjs/yjs-demos#16 too, but still can't figure out what is the right way to do the following:

1. We have a stored document, loaded from API
2. User loads it to the prosemirror to edit
3. Some other user connects to this to collaborate

What is the right way to initialize a yjs "room" with the content that already exists?