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netsuitefreemarker
user3075978
user3075978

Reputation: 845

Render custom field's value as rendered HTML not literal value

I am trying to get HTML content to print in NetSuite's Advanced PDF/HTML Templates. Does anyone know if this is possible?

In this example, custbody_print_content is a custom field. Its value is:

<h1>Tiger</h1>

The template source code looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE pdf PUBLIC "-//big.faceless.org//report" "report-1.1.dtd">

<pdf>
  <body>
    ${record.custbody_print_content}
  </body>
</pdf>

I get this output:

<h1>Tiger</h1>

but I do not want the literal HTML. I want the interpreted HTML, like this:

Tiger

I tried some of the built-ins that were mentioned in the comments, but I still do not get what I want. The picture below shows the template and the printout. The Zebra example has the desired result.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1419

Answers (2)

user3075978
user3075978

Reputation: 845

It looks like NetSuite escapes the html when it saves. This means that when you type this in the form's text box:

<b>Marmot</b>

NetSuite "escapes" it and saves it like this:

&lt;b&gt;Marmot&lt;/b&gt;

So in the FreeMarker template, you need to unescape it. I could not find any built-in feature to do this, but I can use ?replace. My current solution looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE pdf PUBLIC "-//big.faceless.org//report" "report-1.1.dtd">

<pdf>
    <body>
        ${record.custbody_print_content?replace('<br />', '')?replace('&lt;', "\l")?replace('&gt;', "\g")}
    </body>
</pdf>

If anyone knows an easier way to do this, then let me know.

Upvotes: 0

bknights
bknights

Reputation: 15367

You can use the no_esc built-in. E.g

 ${record.custbody_print_content?no_esc}

Also I don't think this should make a difference but your xml is unusual in that it doesn't have a head element

Try getting rid of the extra space between the DOCTYPE and the <pdf> element and add this before the <body> opening tag

<head>
    <link name="verdana" type="font" subtype="opentype" src="${nsfont.verdana}" src-bold="${nsfont.verdana_bold}" bytes="2"></link>
</head>

Upvotes: 2

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