Any person with moderate word processing skills can operate the Umbraco Rich Text Editor (RTE) data type. Built with ease of use in mind, the TinyMCE editing control provides the user with a very familiar and standardized set of tools for managing content. The standard tools with which Umbraco ships are shown in Figure 8-10 and described in Table 8-1.
Any content that you need to publish on your website that has formatting (bold, italicize, bulleted lists, images, paragraphs, etc.), should be entered using the Umbraco RTE data type. The meat of your page is a valid candidate for this data type because the probability of needing to format the content using styles and images is very likely. The contradiction to this case might be the output of a simple summary paragraph that needs no author-injected styling, but would be rendered as part of your templates (ex. news article listing). In this case, you want to retain the control of the output and therefore you might use the Textstring Multiple data type instead.
For a detailed description of the standard Umbraco data types, please see Appendix D.
Using the standard toolbar should feel familiar if you have ever used Microsoft Word or other word processing software. If editors need access to additional tools, such as for inserting videos or flash movies, you can enable those features in the Developer section Data Types Richtext editor, as shown in Figure 8-13.
If you need different options for the Rich Text Editor for different document types, you can easily generate a new version of the default Rich Text Editor by creating a new data type and choosing TinyMCE v3 WYSIWYG as the render control, as shown in Figure 8-14.