Why are half the icons greyed out?

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I use this editor with MiniCMS and Coppermine. I have the latest versions in all. But I can't figure it out. Why are half the icons greyed out when I'm in the editor? For instance, I want to create links from miniCMS to my other sites. I can't do it because the link icon is greyed.

I am not a techie person. I know a little about coding but I can certainly follow instructions. What should I be checking?

Any ideas?

Sun, 07/06/2008 - 09:13

itchypalms

Joined: 06/07/2008

Posts: 1

Re: Why are half the icons greyed out?

The greyed out icons probably means your editor settings are not set to Advanced (there could be more than two levels of use for the editor).
I find these settings by clicking on: Mambots - Site Mambots - FCKeditor (mine says "JoomlaFCK")
When you click on the FCKeditor there are Parameters and a dropdown box called Functions.... that's where I found the Advanced choice will give you full icon range when you go back to the Editor.

I use FCKeditor with Joomla so whatever you have, maybe you can find the same thing in your portal?
ip

Sun, 07/06/2008 - 17:08

erika_conn

Joined: 04/07/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Why are half the icons greyed out?

itchypalms wrote:The greyed out icons probably means your editor settings are not set to Advanced (there could be more than two levels of use for the editor).
I find these settings by clicking on: Mambots - Site Mambots - FCKeditor (mine says "JoomlaFCK")
When you click on the FCKeditor there are Parameters and a dropdown box called Functions.... that's where I found the Advanced choice will give you full icon range when you go back to the Editor.

I use FCKeditor with Joomla so whatever you have, maybe you can find the same thing in your portal?
ip

I use it with miniCMS which is a Coppermine plugin. FCKeditor came packed with MiniCMS. I sense there is something wrong with the installation. I wonder if I should uninstall minicms and reinstall. It's not working properly the way it is. Better yet, maybe I should just uninstall FCKeditor and install a fresh copy. What do you think?

BTW, I can't find the "advanced" setting.

OK, it's now a couple of days later and this is what I discovered. MiniCMS 1.6 with FCKeditor has to be used with Coppermine 1.4.9 and up. Well, the last stable release was 1.4.18, so, of course, it didn't work. I hope this helps someone else because I tore my hair out for a good week over this. I ended up uninstalling MiniCMS 1.6 and installing MiniCMS 1.5 and it works.