Placing dynamic content in the Rich Text Editor by replacing tokens

Content authors sometimes get stuck when they need to put dynamic content in the Rich Text Editor (RTE). Let's suppose that they want to place some advertisements, embed some videos, and update stock quotes or any other content that gets changed frequently. In all such situations, they become handicapped and have to modify the Rich Text content very frequently or manage content using multiple fields.

In this recipe, you will learn about replacing tokens mentioned in the Rich Text field of one item to render the share price information configured in other items.

Getting Ready

Here, we will create a <token> tag that will have the item and field attributes, which specify the item path ...

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