Your not really casting as a NotesRichTextItem as the cast has to go on the right side of the statement.

 

The getFirstItem method returns a notes item object and even though the variable is declared as a RTI the object returned is not. 

 

You can either just manipulate the text of the item or create a java class (where you would be able to cast it correctly) and do you manipulation there. 

 

 

  Thanks for the reply.  Re: casting, I was assuming it worked like java.  Well, the java I remember playing with like 10+ years ago.  I may be 'misremembering' but I thought to cast a variable in java, you something like "var x(field type) = <something>. I just thought maybe it worked like that.

 

  But I did finally figured out how to do what I've been trying to do.  It's about grabbing the content of a RT field and prefixing and postfixing some text that then becomes an email.  Turns out it's pretty simple, actually. Here's what I did:

 

 

There's an issue with the MIME conversion.  But hopefully I can figure that out.

clem