Procedure to enable editor for text field in ATG10.0.2 Merchandising

Hi ,
here I am sharing my experience on topic " Procedure to enable Text editor for text field in ATG10.0.2 Merchandising" flex view.
Pic:1

Example:observe  the above image pic:1, by default in merchandising flex view it will provide small text box with out scroll bar or text editor to deal with text .


repository def -1:
<item-descriptor name="xx" display-name="yy" display-property="zzz">
        <table name="content"  type="primary" id-column-name="id">
            ...
    <property name="htmlContent"              column-name="content"           data-type="String" display-name-resource="HTML Content"        />
            ...
            </table>
    </item-descriptor>
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About Editor in ATG:
If your application is configured to support FCKeditor, you can use HTML to format large text properties by applying styles in a WYSIWYG design view or by coding HTML markup in source view. The property value is then stored as an HTML fragment that can be included in a page on your Web site.By default, the properties that can be formatted with HTML include the Long Description property.

To enable text editor for the text box provided by atg . we no need to bother about customization/configuration those thing already done by ATG  people.observe above pic:2.

Procedure :
To get editor for the text box you have to change data type of property to "big string" in repository definition file.

repository def-2;

<item-descriptor name="xx" display-name="yy" display-property="zzz">
        <table name="content"  type="primary" id-column-name="id">
            ...
    <property name="htmlContent"              column-name="content"           data-type="big string" display-name-resource="HTML Content"        />
            ...
            </table>
    </item-descriptor>