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Re: CKEditor, Spellchecker.net and privacy
August 28, 2010, 08:44:43 am
I'm not saying remove the feature, I was looking for a way to disable it and not have that get overwritten or prevent taking advantage of new features on upgrade.

If you're storing medical histories or similar sensitive data in the system, then in most jurisdictions you have a legal requirement not to share that data with third parties that aren't related to providing whatever service you are providing.

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Re: CKEditor, Spellchecker.net and privacy
September 04, 2010, 12:57:22 am
Folks,

As promised I wrote to spellchecker.net regarding this concern. They have placed a privacy policy on their website at http://www.spellchecker.net/privacypolicy/. The policy includes this statement about their "hosted spellchecking service" which I assume is applicable to spell-check-as-you-type in ckeditor (I'm in the process of clarifying this assumption):

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All text data which is spell-checked by hosted service is sent to our server. Text data is processed and sent back to a client. Spell-checked content and user information is not collected. Separate words are collected anonymously - we store in logs user activity for further service improvements, specifically misspelled word, the action performed (change, change all, ignore, add to user dictionary) and the correct word selected for a misspelled word.


For those of you who are concerned about privacy, would this satisfy your auditors?

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Re: CKEditor, Spellchecker.net and privacy
September 12, 2010, 08:52:28 pm
Hi All

I stumbled onto this thread when I was looking for info about how to customise the CKeditor toolbar having just installed and customised CKeditor in Drupal. Found this with the new Google custom search which is very nice!

I'm with xavier on this and for privacy reasons, with some clients, I wouldn't want to have to explain why text input to a CiviCRM form was being sent to an external server for spellchecking.

I wanted to customise CKeditor to get rid of the spellchecker altogether as it makes more mistakes than most people when used on Canadian English and goes crazy in French. I also wanted to add the feature 'Maximize' and delete some others which are obscure to most users at best.

In the Drupal CKeditor module there is a file ckeditor.config.js for customising as config.js gets overwritten on upgrades.

I also thought it would be user friendly to have the CKeditor toolbars the same in Drupal as CiviCRM (except for 'insert Drupal teaser break').

Ironically, this spellchecker doesn't like the word spellchecking.

Neil

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Re: CKEditor, Spellchecker.net and privacy
September 13, 2010, 04:59:39 pm
Hi Neil - I think making it easier for folks who want to customize the instance of ckEditor used in their CiviCRM sites is useful. If you (or someone :-) ) is up for developing a patch that does what the Drupal ckEditor module does (i.e. allows for a configuration file that is outside of the packages/ckeditor folder - and ideally can be read from CiviCRM's custom template path) - that would be cool!
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Re: CKEditor, Spellchecker.net and privacy
January 10, 2011, 08:13:06 am
For anybody using this, note that in civi 3.3 the id has changed to cke_33.
I think the 3's matching up are just coincidence.

Quote from: demeritcowboy on August 27, 2010, 01:25:48 pm
I think the help text needs to change since the override doesn't seem to work, at least I can't figure it out.

But here's another option if anybody is looking to disable the button without hacking. Put this in extras.css

#cke_30 {display: none;}

Although there's no guarantee that id will stay the same in future.

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Re: CKEditor, Spellchecker.net and privacy
August 02, 2011, 01:33:15 pm
Just wondering if anyone has found a solution for integrating spellchecking into the editor but not have the data sent to a 3rd party?

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