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Is there a better rich text editor available for purchase?

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The OOTB rich-text editor control is very limited. My customer wants to replace it with one that has collaboration features, such as the CKEditor 5. Is that even possible? Does someone sell replacement components for Power Apps like they do for Power Automate?

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Hi @Anonymous ,
PowerApps is highly extensible for pro developers, especially in the form of the developer custom component framework - if you consider components like the map that connects to third party services like Bing, I would guess what you're thinking of is possible, if your target service has an endpoint you can interact with, but I very much doubt you could 'embed' CKEditor5 into your component - but do note I'm doubtful, not certain.

You could possibly build something more feature rich yourself, but that's a lot of effort - It certainly wouldn't be "easy" for a citizen dev like me, but a pro dev should be able to tell you pretty quickly whether it's worth attempting or not.

Lastly, I'm not sure if there is a component framework marketplace to be honest, but the biggest challenges with something like that would be porting across tenants and ensuring the code is vetted and secure. Use of any third party components should also ensure that the overall protection of the content meets the org standards of privacy and security which are already met inside PowerApps/O365.

So I guess the question is - how badly does your customer dislike the OOB solution in terms of your cost of effort to improve it?

[Edit: What features specifically? Maybe there's something in the 365 suite that meets this requirement and integrates well with PowerApps? For example, launching MS Word for users to edit and collaborate in might be an option...]
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RT

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Thanks very much for your reply. Unfortunately, not having the enhanced rich-text editing capabilities is a deal-breaker. What they need specifically is the ability, just like Word, to track changes to fields in PowerApps. They need to be able to see who made updates, comments, etc. and accept or reject changes. All the data are stored in SharePoint lists.

I'm not sure how launching Word would help as the final HTML text needs to be stored in SharePoint. If there was a way to read the contents of a Word document as HTML perhaps that would work.

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I had the same question. The Powerapp controls s (Date Picker, Richtext, Combo etc) seem to be in the infant stages of development in terms of capability, usability and visual pleasantness. The controls are extremely important in an app development environment, and I look forward to the improvements so that they are competitive with other products.
Please take a look at this custom Rich Text editor:
powerapps-docs/rich-text-editor-control.md at main · MicrosoftDocs/powerapps-docs · GitHub

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