D7 Port of canned text

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+1, please someone!? :)

I think the original module had such a low number of users, that maybe the module author didn't feel it was worth continuing development. But I think the problem was a lack of awareness. I've been using Drupal for years and just now came across this module. I'd like to see a D7 version too.

Alright, lets plan a D7 release.

To be honest, I don't have much time to work on this, I know is a useful module, but seems not be so important for other people, so yes, mostly for this reason I didn't tried to port this to D7.

This is a list of things that I would like to see in the D7 version.

• Turn Canned Text into D7 entities. After all we have only a title and a text to display, there is no need to use content types for this.
• Create a plugin for TinyMCE and CKEditor. I not comfortable with the way this is implemented, I mean, a select box is not as usable as a widget in the wysiwyg.
• Make the Views support optional, using the EntityFieldQuery should be enough if we add a property to the entity to group canned texts.
• And finally, fix this #763872: Allow Canned Text to Work with CCK Text Fields, maybe the inclusion of the Wysiwyg plugins could make this workable

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If somebody is interest in help me with the development, please contact me via the contact form. I will be creating a new branch and pushing some code in a few days.

this all sounds really nice - i'm not a programmer, but would be a small bounty helpful?

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I created a development version. I will be available after 12 hours maximum. Or you can checkout the 7.x-1.x branch.

The basic functionality is working, you can create and insert canned texts.

• Canned texts can be created via admin/content/canned_texts and widgets are now Fields, this means you can attach canned texts to any fieldable entity.
• Views support was temporally dropped .
• This version requires the Entity module.

Wysiwyg plugins and the bug reports should be moved into other issues.