bug: [CKEDITOR] Error code: invalid-lts-license-key.

[Vijay-Nirmal]

Describe the bug

CKEditor is not loading, its just shows an empty test area without any button and other functionality in the page is also not working like "Question Mark", "New Paragraph" buttons.

When I checked the console, I could see "[CKEDITOR] Error code: invalid-lts-license-key." error.

To Reproduce

I was also able to reproduce it in a demo instance provided by OpenEMR itself

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open/click a field where the data type is "NationNotes"
2. In the dialog/popup, We can only see a plan text area without CKEditor getting loaded
3. Check the browser console to see the error message

Expected behavior

CKEditor loading properly and showing the format buttons in UI

Client configuration

Note: I was also able to reproduce it in a demo instance provided by OpenEMR itself

• Browser: Microsoft Edge (Latest version) and Google chrome
• OpenEMR version: 7.0.2
• Operating system: Windows 11 23H2

[sjpadgett]

Unfortunately the last stable release of package is v4.22.1 which was EOL version. The normal updating would follow that v4.23.0 would error on install however the editor project administrators know that the free version update to v5.0 is a major effort so decided to capitalize and charge to support ongoing security updates.

For those of you that are capable of running in the command line you may do a simple fix:

• Edit the openemr/package.json and change the "ckeditor4": "4.23.0", L-79 to "ckeditor4": "4.22.1",
• from command line and inside openemr root run npm install
• Delete your browsers cache.
• Log in and enjoy:)

Putting out an update in a patch is doable and unsure when.

[Vijay-Nirmal]

@sjpadgett Thanks, it fixed it, I will leave this issue open till the fix rolls out. But feel free to close the issue if you feel otherwise. Again, thanks a lot.

[sjpadgett]

@Vijay-Nirmal You're welcome. Thanks for the issue report and we'll leave open for patch reference.

[stephenwaite]

nice @sjpadgett!

here's the zipped tarball we'll need when creating the patch
ckeditor4.22.1.tar.gz

[stephenwaite]

keeping open so we don't forget in patch as Jerry recommended

[bradymiller]

Good place to place "reminder" on needing to join the zip for this with the patch when we build it would be at:
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Ongoing_7.0.2_Patch_Trail

[bradymiller]

btw, a nice way for getting this to work in rel-702 branch (and next patch) without needing to muck with the actual patch would be placing the ckeditor 4.22.1 package in the public/assets/modified/ folder and then redirecting the ckeditor token to it in the /config/config.yaml