rtf configurations – Unravel Sitecore!

Okay there comes a time when your business analyst is going to ask you what does Sitecore provide by default in terms of rich text options. And there are actually couple of blogs out there that are informative about this. Check my favorite one here https://markstiles.net/blog/2011/3/15/rich-text-editor-profiles/

But, it is only screenshots up there and though we are all intimate with those word icons, it is hard to actually know what they do unless we open up the editor and hover on each icon to ensure our assumption is correct.

So, I built the below table as a handy reference. Hope this helps! Below are the list of RTF configurations, a quick screenshot for visualization and list of functionalities it exposes to your authors.

Based on the features available per configuration, business analyst and front end team would be able to interpret how many custom configurations we need vs which ones from OOTB that we can re-use for our design requirements on modules in question.

Also, a rule of thumb is to limit custom configurations between 3 to 5 based on number of modules and complexity of Sitecore implementation. More than that would be a overkill per me.

Default RTF Configuration