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Rich
Rich

Reputation: 1

Is there a way to extract a Lotus Notes Rich Text field to keep the formatting?

I am migrating from Lotus Notes to another application. I have a lot of the data migration working but one sticking point is the Rich Text field.

The users have text formatting in a field, with underlining/strikethrough/colours etc.. which all represent something to them. I am unable to take the data from Lotus Notes, formatting and all, and extract it.

I've tried GetFirstItem, GetItemValue, .TEXT, RichTextNavigator and probably other methods that I can't remember now and neither are working. It's pulling the text as just plain text and I am losing the formatting.

The application we are moving it to has an ability to display Rich Text fields, so I was hoping I could pull the Rich Text field from Lotus Notes, with all it's formatting and simply display it in the new application.

Am I missing something in the Domino library that allows you to extract this data, as it must be stored in the Lotus Notes backend somehow, to pull that formatting?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1357

Answers (1)

Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz

Reputation: 14628

Read the answers to this earlier question. How to export Rich Text fields as HTML from Notes with LotusScript? I strongly recommend looking at the MIDAS API referenced in the first answer as it will give you the best fidelity, but there are other options -- particularly in more recent versions.

Upvotes: 1

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