Converting Text HTML

[Delights]

Greetings;

I have a field called "Product_description" and "Product_description_html".

what i want to happen is when you type the following into the field "Product_description";

"FEATURES:

Pg 20- EVAN FARMER- While You Were Out's handsome handyman host kisses and tells about his music, his 'underrobe' and his search for Mrs. Farmer.

"

to this in "Product_description_html";

"FEATURES:

Pg 20- EVAN FARMER- While You Were Out's handsome handyman host kisses and tells about his music, his 'underrobe' and his search for Mrs. Farmer."

[bcooney]

Why not just use GetasCSS ( ) and not enter the html code, but use FM's formatting?

[Delights]

well because eventually all the descriptions will be changed to have the html code. I want the second box to show what it will look like on the website..

Edited August 19, 2009 by Guest

[bcooney]

Just format in FM. For the website, have a calc field that uses GetasCss()

[TheTominator]

You should be able to use the "data" feature of the web viewer to properly render the HTML you have in a data field.

Make the "second box" a web viewer on your layout.

Instead of using an external URL, set the web viewer to have something like

"data:text/html," & Product_description & ""

as the calculation of its URL.

Note that the web portal's "data:" feature has become more reliably cross-platform with FM 10.

Edited August 19, 2009 by Guest

[Peter (duksis3)]

GetAs(CSS) mainly is" aprox to html". OK in a lot of cases but anyway - for lager texts containing several fields, calculations, image URL's - correct calculation must be written - with all "&", " and so on, and then GetAS (CSS) can be used to finalize html code.

[Delights]

i would like to make sure that is is going to come out all right, i want to make sure that it is fine so i dont have to check all 1000+ records on the site, it will show a preview on the second box.

[Delights]

Thanks

This is excactly what i was after, the coding is listed below. Thanks for the help.

"data:text/html," & Product Catalog::v_products_description_1 & ""