#Ribbon action for inserting HTML snippets (SharePoint 2013 on premise and O365)
This is a sample sandbox solution that adds a custom ribbon button allowing authors to insert HTML snippets into both fields AND content editor web parts. This addresses the out of the box limitation of SharePoint's Reusable Content feature, which only works with fields, not content editors. Although this won't have any of the linking capabilities of Reusable Content, it's purpose is more of an HTML injector where a copy is pasted into the selected region (no linking). This is a sandbox WSP and works with both on premise and Office 365. Note that Reusable Content is a publishing concept so if you are working within a team site the Reusable Content list will not be there by default. You can create the list manually and this feature will still add the button to be used on team sites.
##Getting Started
Pull all the files from the "src" folder and open up RibbonHtmlSnippets.sln using Visual Studio (built using VS 2012). There is a project called RibbonHtmlSnippets. Simply build, point at your site collection and then deploy it.
Once deployed, edit a page and highlight either a field or the content area of a content editor web part. On the ribbon go to the Embed tab. You'll see there is a ribbon action named "Insert Snippet". This pulls from the same Reusable Content library by default so you'll see the same options in the flyout for this button as you do in the Reusable Content flyout. Choose one of the options in the flyout and the snippet will be pasted into the field/content editor you are highlighted on. The solution is hardcoded to pull from the Reusable Content library relative to your current site. If you want to pull from a different location or always pull from the root site collection you'll have to modify the "getReusableContent()" function to do so.
##Deploying to O365
- You can either manually upload the generated WSP to your O365 tenant or use Visual Studio's "Publish" command from the right click menu.
- Once published go to the Solutions page in your tenant and make sure the solution is activated.
- To re-publish from VS the solution needs to be deleted entirely from your SharePoint tenant.
If you have a bug, or a feature request, please post in the issue tracker.
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