# RichTextEditor on product description?

**URL:** <https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438 "2018-12-13T16:09:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438/1 "2018-12-13T16:09:56Z")

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Hi, not sure if this is a new thing/a bug or a setting but since I imported all my products to L7 but I don’t have a "RichTextEditor " on the product description field? Should it be there by default? How do I add this since its a system field?  
Litium version: 7

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**Author:** ![patric.forsgard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/patric.forsgard/32/10_2.png) [@patric.forsgard](https://forum.litium.com/u/patric.forsgard)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438/2 "2018-12-14T08:09:07Z")

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The `Description` field is a multi-line text and can’t be changed. If you need to have the editor as description field you need to add another field that you are using for the description text.

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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438/3 "2018-12-14T10:26:07Z")

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What are the reasoning for changing this from 6.2? This will probably complicate the upgrade for a lot of people, so am just curious 🙂

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**Author:** ![patric.forsgard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/patric.forsgard/32/10_2.png) [@patric.forsgard](https://forum.litium.com/u/patric.forsgard)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438/4 "2018-12-14T17:11:19Z")

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In Litium 4 the accelerator come with an editor field for the description, in this version the description field was not a fixed field and instead a field that you as developer need to add. When we was rebuilding that for Litium 5 it was changed to be a multi-line text system field based on request from multiple partner and customer. In Litium 6 and Litium 7 the field is still multi-line text so that is not changed.

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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/richtexteditor-on-product-description/438/5 "2018-12-15T21:20:40Z")

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Thank you! My bad… The sites I’m working with must have the custom fields with the same name, they both been around since v4