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rrk
rrk

Reputation: 15846

CF Report Builder displaying html tags (ie rich text) as plain text

This is the content from the database:

<p><b>As the newly reborn Modbook Inc.</b> </p>

The actual output in the report page is the same (including the html tags).

<p><b>As the newly reborn Modbook Inc.</b> </p>

The expected output was bold text like:

As the newly reborn Modbook Inc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1305

Answers (2)

bean5
bean5

Reputation: 306

  1. Use <strong> instead of <b>.

  2. Use <i> instead of <em>.

  3. Use <a href="http://www.someLocation.com">http://www.someLocation.com</a> instead of <a href="http://www.someLocation.com">some English here</a>.

  4. Don't use &nbsp;. It crashes. I don't have good work-arounds for this.

  5. Don't use <hr>. It crashes. I don't have good work-arounds for this.

You might find more at as adobe looks into it at https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3861021.

Upvotes: 1

genericHCU
genericHCU

Reputation: 4446

From what I've seen you'll need to use a custom function. It looks like someone was trying to use that solution as recent as 19 March 2012. I see here on Kay Smol­jak's blog that there is a property to handle some of the tags but I haven't tested it (and it's from almost 7 years ago, however considering the lack of popularity in report builder I doubt Adobe's done much to help the issue).

The mys­te­ri­ous HTML For­mat­ted Text property

The lat­est build of the Report Builder included a new prop­erty for text objects – HTML For­mat­ted Text (true or false). It’s not in the pro­gram help or in the live­docs. Basic HTML that I tried – para­graphs, Hx ele­ments and strong ele­ments – didn’t seem to work – the markup showed in the ren­dered report. Through a process of trial and error, I dis­cov­ered that ele­ments do work. Other presentation-style HTML such as the ele­ment prob­a­bly also work.

Upvotes: 3

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