Guys:
Yes, you can't just use TinyMCE to edit imported HTML pages. TinyMCE is designed to create and edit HTML fragments. If you have an existing web page, if you attempt to open in TinyMCE, all your Javascript and such will get munged and corrupted by TinyMCE. That's why it's disabled. People were importing static sites and then instead of using the standard editor they used to create the page, tried using TinyMCE. Their pages were munged and unpreviewable. They'd have to Undo their changes and revert their sandboxes back to the latest version of Staging.
What to do?
Create one simple web form, article. Make it have two elements: a title (xs:normalizedString) and a body (xs:string). Then, take your HTML page, save as a *.ftl, and mark-up to make a Freemarker template (add a Freemarker decorator as your first line, declare your XML namespaces, and then delete all the body content and reference instead the body element in your XML. Create a new XML, generate your page, and then on an ongoing basis, users can edit HTML page - but the body only - using TinyMCE. And because it's a template, if you change your template, you can use our Regenerate wizard to re-build all your HTML pages.
It's a slight bit more work, but it'll make your static HTML pages based on XML and standard templates in a pretty quick, straightforward manner. That's part of the power of Freemarker, btw - any HTML page can serve as the basis of a Freemarker template.
We go through this exercise in our WCM Training course. I encourage you to sign up!
Kevin
