Hi everyone!

As someone leaked earlier this week in this tweet, we're dedicating a lot of effort into improving content creation in the next version of Liferay Portal.

One of the first things we are trying to do, is to improve the portal intelligence and its ability to predict, find and suggest what the user may be looking for when writing some content.

With that in mind we've created a plugin for CKEditor which will allow developers to provide a series of autocomplete lists based on the user input. Check out what you can accomplish with a simple configuration step like the following:

ckEditor.config.autocomplete = {
 trigger: [
  {
   resultTextLocator: 'screenName',
   term: '@',
   tplReplace: '<a href="{portraitURL}">@{screenName}</a>',
   tplResults: '<div class="taglib-user-display><span class="user-name">{fullName}@{screenName}</div>',
   source: '<%= autoCompleteUserURL.toString() %>'
  },
  {
   resultTextLocator: 'title',
   term: ':',
   tplReplace: '<div><img class="img-polaroid" src="{url}"</img></div>',
   tplResults: '<div><img class="img-rounded" src="{url}">{title}</div>',
   source: '<%= autocompleteImageURL.toString() %>'
  }
 ]
};

We are still planning which kind of features to ship by default. Amongst others, we're considering:

• Autocomplete of users based on screenName
• Autocomplete of friendly urls to site pages
• Autocomplete of related (by site or author) blog entries
• Autocomplete of assets in the document library
• Autocomplete of emojis
• [...]
• Any other list you may think of ;)

So, what do you think? What kind of options would you like to see implemented for this feature?