[SalesForce] upload images with lightning:inputRichText

I'm not sure if I am just completely missing something or no one asks this question but I can't find a solution to this. I have a requirement to be able to upload images into the body of a rich text field which is being used to facilitate back and fourth communication in a SFDC community <> console.

I've built a lightning app which works well except I can't figure out how I'm supposed to upload images into the field. Is lightning:inputRichText even capable of doing so? There is no documentation that says it doesn't and it's supposed to replace the legacy ui:richText field (which does not allow for local import anyways). I've also tried the CKEditor approach and that also does not support local import, not to mention with lockerservice enabled it does not render.

I'm totally stumped, any help is appreciated.

Here is my component in case it helps:

<aura:component controller="caseCommentsController" implements="force:appHostable,forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes,force:hasRecordId" access="global">

<!-- display case comments -->
<div class="container slds-p-top--medium">
    <div id="list" class="row">
        <aura:iteration items="{!v.comments}" var="comment">
            <c:caseCommentsList comment="{!comment}"/>
        </aura:iteration>
    </div>   
</div> 

<!-- input form using components -->
<div class="container slds-p-top--large">
    <form class="slds-form--stacked">
        <div class="slds-form-element">
            <div class="slds-form-element__control">
                <!-- ui:inputText aura:id="caseid" disabled="true"
                           value="{!v.newComment.Case__c}"/ -->               
            </div>
        </div>
     <div class="slds-form-element">
       <div class="slds-form-element__control">
         <lightning:inputRichText aura:id="addComment" 
                                  disabledCategories="FORMAT_FONT"
                                  placeholder="Add a comment..."
                                  value="{!v.newComment.Comment__c}"/>                              
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="slds-form-element">
        <ui:button label="Add Comment" 
                   class="slds-button slds-button--neutral"
                   labelClass="label"
                   press="{!c.createComment}"/>
      </div>    
</form>

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Did you try copying and pasting the image ? I am in similar scenario - the image is pasted Ok, but the lightning page renders just with the link of the image instead of actually showing the image. I dont think the 'attach' option to upload image is not available on lightning:inputRichtext yet.

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Looks like we can override by adding a Renderer file .Here is the code thats working for me

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable,flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId,forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes,force:lightningQuickAction" access="global" >
 <lightning:button label="Set InputRichText Value" onclick="{!c.showPanel}"/>

  <div aura:id="overlay" class="slds-hide slds-align--absolute-center" style="position:fixed;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;top:0;background:rgba(51,51,51,0.9);z-index:10;">
   <label class="slds-form-element__label">Body</label>
   <lightning:inputRichText aura:id="richTextBody" />
  </div>
</aura:component>

The Js Controller for same is as below

({
  showPanel : function(component, event, helper) {
  var overlay = component.find("overlay");
  $A.util.removeClass(overlay, "slds-hide");
 }
})

The Renderer to make it working is as below

({
render : function(cmp, helper) {
  var ret = this.superRender();
  // do custom rendering here
  cmp.find("richTextBody").set("v.value", "<p>This will be init properly once I switch to ContentNote</p>");
   return ret;
  }
})

Looks like renderer is able to set the value and I fear this is because setting a value on the RichText is manipulating DOM and the component renders after the value is being set so one of the ways to override it using the Renderer file that component framework provides .

[SalesForce] get values in lightning:input with $A.createComponents

In order to bind to something dynamically, you need a reference. Here is a very basic, no-frills, slightly buggy implementation that demonstrates that this basically works.

Notice how I use component.getReference to dynamically link to a field. Also notice how I can bind to the same field twice, which literally lets me modify the same field more than once in real-time, just to prove that they are real references.

With a little more error checking and fact-gathering, this could indeed be a dynamic form with some basic describe data, etc. Notice how I do not use aura:id at all. I simply bound all the fields to a common object, and I could get and retrieve the values at will (in this case, demonstrated through Object.keys). I could also bind this object to, say, a force:recordData to dynamically save the data back to the server, or send it through a server action in Apex.

<aura:application extends="force:slds">
    <aura:attribute name="accountRecord" type="Account" default="{ 'sobjectType': 'Account' }" />
    <aura:attribute name="edits" type="Aura.Component[]" />
    <aura:attribute name="fieldName" type="String" />
    <aura:attribute name="output" type="String" />

    <aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.init}" />

    {!v.output}

    <hr />

    {!v.edits}

    <ui:inputText value="{!v.fieldName}" />
    <ui:button press="{!c.addField}" label="Add" />
    <br/>
    <ui:button press="{!c.display}" label="Show Data" />
</aura:application>

({
    init: function(component, event, helper) {
        component.set("v.edits", []);
    },
    addField: function(component, event, helper) {
        var field = component.get("v.fieldName"), 
            obj = component.get("v.accountRecord");
        obj[field] = "";
        component.set("v.accountRecord", obj);
        $A.createComponent(
            "lightning:input", {
                value: component.getReference("v.accountRecord."+component.get("v.fieldName")),
                label: component.get("v.fieldName"),
                type: "Text"
            },
            $A.getCallback(function(newCmp, status, error) {
                var edits = component.get("v.edits");
                edits.push(newCmp);
                component.set("v.edits", edits);
            })
        );
    },
    display: function(component, event, helper) {
        var obj = component.get("v.accountRecord");
        var results = [];
        Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(key) { results.push(key+":"+obj[key])});
        component.set("v.output", results.join('\n'));
    }
})

Here's a demo of me dynamically binding stuff:

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