Brickfield Education Labs

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Introduction

The Brickfield Atto link editor provides:

  • Link editor: this has access to the toolkit URL title retrieval system, which can
    • suggest suitable names for plugins.
    • prevent bad practises, such as using “click here” or the raw URL for the link title.
  • “Show blank target option to users” setting, which by default is enabled but can disabled in the plugin settings.

 

The Ad hoc task “\tool_bfplus\task\process_link” deals with processing links. For more information, see: Cron and Scheduled tasks.

Enabling the Brickfield Atto link editor

The Brickfield Atto link editor (atto_bflink module) will not show or operate unless added to the Atto Toolbar config. To enable the Brickfield Atto link editor, navigate to:

  1. Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Atto HTML editor > Atto toolbar settings > Toolbar config
  2. Change “links = link” to “links = bflink”
  3. Click “save changes”
Create link modal with the fields: Improved link text, URL, open in new window checkbox, and the create link button.

Configuring the Brickfield Atto link editor

To change the global configuration for Brickfield Atto link, navigate to:

  • Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Bflink toolbar settings
Brickfield link toolbar settings page with the show blank target option to users checkbox, and save changes.

The global configurations are as follows:

  • Show blank target option to users: Provides an option to set a link to open in a new window.