Apostrophe cms - inline editing of rich text in custom widgets?

Question

I can\'t make inline editing of rich text save back to the db in some cases.

Please bear with me, there will be some code pasted here, as it is the only way I can descri

Answer 1

One of Apostrophe's subtleties is that any property beginning with an underscore (_) (except _id) is not actually part of the parent object and changes don't go back to the database

These are properties attached for convenience by Apostrophe somewhere in the retrieval process.

I don't thinkg modifying the piece from the widget is something baked in by default (typically piece-widgets are single-serving views for content) but it is possible to set up custom backend functionality.

Not a total 1:1 of your issue but if you look at the comments and comments-widgets module in this (rough) example, you can see we're modifying the piece's content via the widget.

https://github.com/stuartromanek/apostrophe-comment-system/tree/master/lib/modules