How to set Ephox Edit Live editor as default WCM editor?

Below are the simple steps to changes the WCM editor from default rich text to Ephox edit Live. First of all you have to download Ephox edit live from https://greenhouse.lotus.com/ and install the same application on to your portal server if not already installed.

• Login to WAS Console.
• Navigate to Applications->Application Types -> WebSphere enterprise applications.
• Click on Install and select the .ear file you downloaded and click Next. Keep the default options keep going to next pages.
• Make sure you select websphere_portal as the server not server1 while installing the .ear and finish the installation and save the configuration.
• Start the application if its not already started.
• Login to portal as administrator and navigate to WCM Authoring portlet -> Preferences > Configure.
• Expand the Rich Text Options section , select Custom Editor in the drop down and enter the following in the text box "/wps/ephox/;jsp/html/EditLiveJavaEditor.jsp"and click OK.
• Now navigate to WCM Authoring portlet -> Preferences > Edit Shared Settings.
• Expand the RichTextOptions section , select Custom Editor in the drop down and enter the following in the text box "/wps/ephox/;jsp/html/EditLiveJavaEditor.jsp"and click OK.
• Now go to any content item that uses rich text and you can see its using ephox edit live edit instead of IBM's default RTE.
•  You can easily toggle between the design view and code view in the bottom left corner.

 Ephox edit Live is a Java Editor and Java Runtime is required on wcm author's machine to be able to use this applet in a browser.

Ephox has also released a javascript based rich text editor that you can apply on WebSphere Portal 8.5.0.0 with CF06 or higher.
Here is some more info on this: https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentId=86189C1DAC5B1D3B85257E4500199F1B

About Rich Text editor options on WCM: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JLV_8.0.0/wcm/wcm_config_authoringportlet_richtext.html