Custom templates editing

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Hello all

I am implementing a kind of emailing plugin for Umbraco and experienced an issue.

I’ve created custom tree ‘Email Templates’ with nodes representing CSHTML Razor templates - files under the ‘~/Views/Emails’ (so it is not shown in the ‘Templates’ tree). I dont need to create any table in the DB so it is enough for me to store just a files and map them to the tree. What I need for now is to edit e-mail templates in the backoffice using a friendly code editor in similar way like it is done with regular templates.

Here is a screenshot of what I need

![Screenshot of what I need][1]
[1]: https://our.umbraco.com//media/upload/8f17ef1b-7708-4deb-90ad-b6fda4d6e293/umbraco-backoffice.png

So I see 2 theoretical ways to achieve this:

  1. Re-use existing in Umbraco default code editor which is used for
    regular templates editing (CodeMirror if I’m not mistaken?)
  2. Add entirely new code editor into the plugin (TinyMCE/CodeMirror/etc)

If the above ways are possible can you please advise on how it can be done technically? Or are there any other possible ways to achieve this?

Thanks

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/71655-custom-templates-editing