Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum

~Lisa Chuboosiverynds

Jul 25, 2011, 7:08 PM

14 Posts

Re: GetItemValue?

Unfortunately, getItemValue yields the same results: line breaks ignored.

When I "View Source," the text is formatted perfectly. But not in the browser display itself.

~Bella Elfreemaroni

Jul 26, 2011, 4:22 PM

31 Posts

My last post on this issue ...

First, make sure you aren't in compatibility mode in IE. Compatibility mode can wreak havoc with CSS & the box model. I would test this strictly in Firefox & use Firebug to look at the source when it's rendered.

And, lastly, you know what I'm going to say ... Since a single-value text field with embedded line breaks is causing you such grief during display, you really may have to consider at least temporarily storing it in a proper multi-value text field for display/editing -- you can save it back to your single-value text field on save.

I'm done.

~Lisa Chuboosiverynds

Jul 26, 2011, 8:33 PM

14 Posts

Re: My last post on this issue ...

Thanks so much for everyone's help!

I tried storing the formatted text in a Rich Text field. The carriage returns displayed on the web, but spaces and bolding were added randomly.

So my final solution was:

1) In the Notes form, added Input Translation to the text field that replaced @NewLine with "<BR>" and blank spaces with "^"

2) In the Xpage, used a Computed Field (HTML) that replaced the "^" with a blank space.

var temp=AnalysisDoc.getItemValueString("Representation");
temp.replace("^", " ");

The formatting comes across perfectly now.

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

Jul 27, 2011, 7:38 AM

261 Posts

Re: My last post on this issue ...

Hello Sally,

It's good to read you found a solution that works for you, although I can imagine that changing the data itself isn't what you really want.

I just wanted to see for myself how this worked so I created a (Notes) form with a single text field (not multi-value), added some text with line breaks and displayed it in a computed field on an XPage (added the document as a data source and used doc.getItemValue to read the data in the computed field).

The solution you described in your fist post worked for me: there were no   added at all and the line breaks were displayed correctly. Here's the code I've used:

   <xp:text escape="false">
       <xp:this.converter>
           <xp:customConverter>
               <xp:this.getAsString><![CDATA[#{javascript:@ReplaceSubstring(value, "\n", "<br />")}]]></xp:this.getAsString>
               <xp:this.getAsObject><![CDATA[#{javascript:@ReplaceSubstring(value, "\n", "<br />")}]]></xp:this.getAsObject>
           </xp:customConverter>
       </xp:this.converter>
       <xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:document1.getItemValue("name")}]]></xp:this.value>
   </xp:text>

Mark

(BTW: I've used Domino/Notes 8.5.2FP3)

~Lisa Chuboosiverynds

Aug 2, 2011, 6:15 PM

14 Posts

Mark's solution

Thanks, Mark! When I saw your post I thought, "Haven't I already tried that combination?", but then tried it again, and it worked perfectly.

I'm new to Xpages, and think I lost confidence and started flailing around early instead of just calming down and figuring out the elements.

SO MUCH BETTER than messing with the data... thanx mucho mucho for taking the time to work through it and respond.

Sally