When simple lists are not enough in Umbraco
Umbraco makes use of the the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor which is a great tool for updating content on your site. It is a stable and robust WYSIWYG covering nearly all the bases you would expect for desktop publishing such as MS Word.
By default the editor does not put in all the bells and whistles you would like. One of these is the ability to insert different types of lists on your document. By default it has the Unordered List and the Ordered List. Each has their own defualt styles of the dot list and numerical sequential numbers. At times you may need more than this.
The config files for Umbraco allows you to activate any of the built in features that come with TinyMCE. You can see a full listing of those features here. One great plugin is advanced lists. This updates the current list options by adding style types to the unordered list (Default, Circle, Disc, Square) and ordered list (Default, Lower Alpha, Lower Greek, Lower Roman, Upper Alpha, Upper Roman). It is a great plugin that lets the user have more control over the presentation of their pages.
To enable the plugin go to your /Config/tinyMceConfig.config file. At the bottom you will see the <plugins> section. To this add the following:
<plugin loadOnFrontend="true">advlist</plugin>
And there you have it. Refresh the site by touching the Web.config and you should be in business. Advanced lists are yours.
