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Injecting HTML into a Multiline Text Field
Hi everyone. We recently came across a use case for injecting multiline HTML into a Multiple Lines of Text field. At first, this seemed a little daunting, but it's actually quite easy to set up.
To set HTML in a Multiline text field using Custom Actions (or Workflows, for that matter), you can use the Update Item action and use the $strcat function. Use this in conjunction with variables. For instance, since parentheses, commas, and other special characters are used within functions themselves, you'll want to define these as variables. See the attached image for using variables for the "comma" character and the "<br/>" (line break) character.
Then you can build your string in the column mapping section using something like this:
Quote from James Restivo on March 9, 2021, 10:57 amHi everyone. We recently came across a use case for injecting multiline HTML into a Multiple Lines of Text field. At first, this seemed a little daunting, but it's actually quite easy to set up.
To set HTML in a Multiline text field using Custom Actions (or Workflows, for that matter), you can use the Update Item action and use the $strcat function. Use this in conjunction with variables. For instance, since parentheses, commas, and other special characters are used within functions themselves, you'll want to define these as variables. See the attached image for using variables for the "comma" character and the "<br/>" (line break) character.
Then you can build your string in the column mapping section using something like this:
$strcat([LastName|LastName],varcomma##Value, ,[FirstName|FirstName],varnewline##Value,[Phone|Phone])So you can use "varnewline##value" for the line break and "varcomma##value" for the comma. Use the same construct for any other variables you define.Try it out and let me know your comments below!
I'm trying this process out to build a web service URL, but it's not processing commas, parenthesis, or quotes. Here's what I have:
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