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Hey Gang,
We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
<DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
thanks,
John
We completely disabled rich text in the application shortly after we upgraded to 7.5. First thing to understand is that what they call "Rich Text" is actually HTML. We use Cognos for most of our reporting and Cognos didn't handle embedded HTML very well or at all. We made a couple attempts at creating functions to strip out the formatting tags, but what we found is that it was very high effort for the very low benefit of having Rich Text, so we just disabled it. I can forward the instructions from IBM for disabling if you chose to go that route.
-Chris H
-----Original Message-----
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Ballnik
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:23 PM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
Hey Gang,
We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
<DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
thanks,
John
Hi Chris and John,
I hope you don't mind me following your post, but I would be very interested in the instructions you received form IBM. We have this problem also, and it causes more headaches than it is worth.
Thank You,
Michael
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com, "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@...> wrote:
>
> We completely disabled rich text in the application shortly after we upgraded to 7.5. First thing to understand is that what they call "Rich Text" is actually HTML. We use Cognos for most of our reporting and Cognos didn't handle embedded HTML very well or at all. We made a couple attempts at creating functions to strip out the formatting tags, but what we found is that it was very high effort for the very low benefit of having Rich Text, so we just disabled it. I can forward the instructions from IBM for disabling if you chose to go that route.
>
> -Chris H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Ballnik
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:23 PM
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
>
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
>
> <DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
>
> thanks,
> John
>
>
>
The instructions are below. Be warned that every time you apply a patch, you will need to re-apply this because the patches will overwrite control-registry.xml. Seems like I also had to tweak the LD dialog in the library.xml in order to get the legacy buttons back, I think I just pulled out an old 7.1 copy and compared and made the changes.
-Chris H
1. Make a backup copy of ..\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\properties\control-registry.xml
2. Open it in an ASCII text editor
3. Search on the following: control-descriptor name="longdescription"
4. Within that node, find <component-list>
5. Within that comment out following nodes
<richtexteditor....
<richtextviewer....
<textarea id....
Adding the following comment line before each:
<!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test -->
6. Add the following after the last commented out:
<!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text -->
<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
So when you are done, the component-list node should look simmilar to the following:
<component-list>
<components id="${name}_components_v" layout="vertical">
<components nowrap="false" id="${name}_components_h1" layout="horizontal" makevertical="true">
<label id="${name}_label" labelcss="@{labelcss}" title="@{label}" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" instance-class="psdi.webclient.components.LongDescr iptionTitle" wraptext="true" textcss="@{textcss}" wraplength="@{wraplength}" labelfor="${name}_richtexteditor,${name}_richtextvi ewer,${name}_textarea"/>
</components>
<components id="${name}_components_h2" layout="horizontal">
<required-indicator id="${name}_required_indicator" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" />
</components>
<components id="${name}_components_h3" layout="horizontal">
<!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test -->
<!--<richtexteditor id="${name}_richtexteditor" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}"
plugins="@{plugins}" extra_plugins="@{extra_plugins}" dojo_require="@{dojo_require}" load_css="@{load_css}" dojo_type="@{dojo_type}" hidewhen="{mobile}==true" />-->
<!-- Comment out the richTextViewer if you do NOT want Rich Text -->
<!--<richtextviewer id="${name}_richtextviewer" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==true" />-->
<!-- Comment out this textArea tag if you are NOT using rich text -->
<!--<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==false" />-->
<!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text -->
<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
</components>
<children id="${name}_children" layout="none" />
</components>
</component-list>
7. Rebuild and redeploy of the EAR is required.
-----Original Message-----
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dasisart
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:34 PM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
Hi Chris and John,
I hope you don't mind me following your post, but I would be very interested in the instructions you received form IBM. We have this problem also, and it causes more headaches than it is worth.
Thank You,
Michael
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> , "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@...> wrote:
>
> We completely disabled rich text in the application shortly after we upgraded to 7.5. First thing to understand is that what they call "Rich Text" is actually HTML. We use Cognos for most of our reporting and Cognos didn't handle embedded HTML very well or at all. We made a couple attempts at creating functions to strip out the formatting tags, but what we found is that it was very high effort for the very low benefit of having Rich Text, so we just disabled it. I can forward the instructions from IBM for disabling if you chose to go that route.
>
> -Chris H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> Behalf Of John Ballnik
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:23 PM
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
>
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but
> when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
>
> <DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration:
> underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this
> out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT
> --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
>
> thanks,
> John
>
>
>
What did you do with data that already contained HTML tagging?
Shannon Dale SuttonMobile: 318-334-8002
________________________________
From: "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil>
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:18 AM
Subject: RE: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
The instructions are below. Be warned that every time you apply a patch, you will need to re-apply this because the patches will overwrite control-registry.xml. Seems like I also had to tweak the LD dialog in the library.xml in order to get the legacy buttons back, I think I just pulled out an old 7.1 copy and compared and made the changes.
-Chris H
1. Make a backup copy of ..\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\properties\control-registry.xml
2. Open it in an ASCII text editor
3. Search on the following: control-descriptor name="longdescription"
4. Within that node, find <component-list>
5. Within that comment out following nodes
<richtexteditor....
<richtextviewer....
<textarea id....
Adding the following comment line before each:
<!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test -->
6. Add the following after the last commented out:
<!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text -->
<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
So when you are done, the component-list node should look simmilar to the following:
<component-list>
<components id="${name}_components_v" layout="vertical">
<components nowrap="false" id="${name}_components_h1" layout="horizontal" makevertical="true">
<label id="${name}_label" labelcss="@{labelcss}" title="@{label}" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" instance-class="psdi.webclient.components.LongDescr iptionTitle" wraptext="true" textcss="@{textcss}" wraplength="@{wraplength}" labelfor="${name}_richtexteditor,${name}_richtextvi ewer,${name}_textarea"/>
</components>
<components id="${name}_components_h2" layout="horizontal">
<required-indicator id="${name}_required_indicator" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" />
</components>
<components id="${name}_components_h3" layout="horizontal">
<!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test -->
<!--<richtexteditor id="${name}_richtexteditor" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}"
plugins="@{plugins}" extra_plugins="@{extra_plugins}" dojo_require="@{dojo_require}" load_css="@{load_css}" dojo_type="@{dojo_type}" hidewhen="{mobile}==true" />-->
<!-- Comment out the richTextViewer if you do NOT want Rich Text -->
<!--<richtextviewer id="${name}_richtextviewer" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==true" />-->
<!-- Comment out this textArea tag if you are NOT using rich text -->
<!--<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==false" />-->
<!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text -->
<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
</components>
<children id="${name}_children" layout="none" />
</components>
</component-list>
7. Rebuild and redeploy of the EAR is required.
-----Original Message-----
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dasisart
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:34 PM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
Hi Chris and John,
I hope you don't mind me following your post, but I would be very interested in the instructions you received form IBM. We have this problem also, and it causes more headaches than it is worth.
Thank You,
Michael
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> , "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@...> wrote:
>
> We completely disabled rich text in the application shortly after we upgraded to 7.5. First thing to understand is that what they call "Rich Text" is actually HTML. We use Cognos for most of our reporting and Cognos didn't handle embedded HTML very well or at all. We made a couple attempts at creating functions to strip out the formatting tags, but what we found is that it was very high effort for the very low benefit of having Rich Text, so we just disabled it. I can forward the instructions from IBM for disabling if you chose to go that route.
>
> -Chris H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> Behalf Of John Ballnik
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:23 PM
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
>
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but
> when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
>
> <DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration:
> underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this
> out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT
> --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
>
> thanks,
> John
>
>
>
Thanks Guys,
I will work on this ASAP
Michael
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com, shannon sutton <shannonsuttondale@...> wrote:
>
> What did you do with data that already contained HTML tagging?
> Â
> Shannon Dale SuttonMobile: 318-334-8002
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@...>
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:18 AM
> Subject: RE: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
>
>
>
> Â
> The instructions are below. Be warned that every time you apply a patch, you will need to re-apply this because the patches will overwrite control-registry.xml. Seems like I also had to tweak the LD dialog in the library.xml in order to get the legacy buttons back, I think I just pulled out an old 7.1 copy and compared and made the changes.
>
> -Chris H
>
> 1. Make a backup copy of ..\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\properties\control-registry.xml
> 2. Open it in an ASCII text editor
> 3. Search on the following: control-descriptor name="longdescription"
> 4. Within that node, find <component-list>
> 5. Within that comment out following nodes
> <richtexteditor....
> <richtextviewer....
> <textarea id....
> Adding the following comment line before each:
> <!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test -->
> 6. Add the following after the last commented out:
> <!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text -->
> <textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
>
> So when you are done, the component-list node should look simmilar to the following:
> <component-list>
> <components id="${name}_components_v" layout="vertical">
> <components nowrap="false" id="${name}_components_h1" layout="horizontal" makevertical="true">
> <label id="${name}_label" labelcss="@{labelcss}" title="@{label}" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" instance-class="psdi.webclient.components.LongDescr iptionTitle" wraptext="true" textcss="@{textcss}" wraplength="@{wraplength}" labelfor="${name}_richtexteditor,${name}_richtextvi ewer,${name}_textarea"/>
> </components>
> <components id="${name}_components_h2" layout="horizontal">
> <required-indicator id="${name}_required_indicator" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" />
> </components>
> <components id="${name}_components_h3" layout="horizontal">
>
> <!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test -->
> <!--<richtexteditor id="${name}_richtexteditor" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}"
> plugins="@{plugins}" extra_plugins="@{extra_plugins}" dojo_require="@{dojo_require}" load_css="@{load_css}" dojo_type="@{dojo_type}" hidewhen="{mobile}==true" />-->
>
> <!-- Comment out the richTextViewer if you do NOT want Rich Text -->
> <!--<richtextviewer id="${name}_richtextviewer" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==true" />-->
>
> <!-- Comment out this textArea tag if you are NOT using rich text -->
> <!--<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==false" />-->
>
> <!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text -->
> <textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
> </components>
> <children id="${name}_children" layout="none" />
> </components>
> </component-list>
>
> 7. Rebuild and redeploy of the EAR is required.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dasisart
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:34 PM
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
>
> Hi Chris and John,
> I hope you don't mind me following your post, but I would be very interested in the instructions you received form IBM. We have this problem also, and it causes more headaches than it is worth.
>
> Thank You,
> Michael
>
> --- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> , "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@> wrote:
> >
> > We completely disabled rich text in the application shortly after we upgraded to 7.5. First thing to understand is that what they call "Rich Text" is actually HTML. We use Cognos for most of our reporting and Cognos didn't handle embedded HTML very well or at all. We made a couple attempts at creating functions to strip out the formatting tags, but what we found is that it was very high effort for the very low benefit of having Rich Text, so we just disabled it. I can forward the instructions from IBM for disabling if you chose to go that route.
> >
> > -Chris H
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
> > Behalf Of John Ballnik
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:23 PM
> > To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
> >
> >
> >
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but
> > when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
> >
> > <DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration:
> > underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this
> > out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT
> > --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
> >
> > thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
We had to write a script to strip it out on the back end. Doubtful that we got every single permutation of formatting stripped out, but we got the most frequently found ones anyway. There are probably more elegant and effective ways to do it using Java, but a script got us a 99% solution quickly and we called that good enough.
-----Original Message-----
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of shannon sutton
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:57 AM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
What did you do with data that already contained HTML tagging?
Shannon Dale SuttonMobile: 318-334-8002
________________________________
From: "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@uscg.mil <mailto:christopher.a.hanna%40uscg.mil> >
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:18 AM
Subject: RE: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
The instructions are below. Be warned that every time you apply a patch, you will need to re-apply this because the patches will overwrite control-registry.xml. Seems like I also had to tweak the LD dialog in the library.xml in order to get the legacy buttons back, I think I just pulled out an old 7.1 copy and compared and made the changes.
-Chris H
1. Make a backup copy of ..\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\properties\control-registry.xml
2. Open it in an ASCII text editor
3. Search on the following: control-descriptor name="longdescription"
4. Within that node, find <component-list> 5. Within that comment out following nodes <richtexteditor....
<richtextviewer....
<textarea id....
Adding the following comment line before each:
<!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test --> 6. Add the following after the last commented out:
<!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text --> <textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" />
So when you are done, the component-list node should look simmilar to the following:
<component-list>
<components id="${name}_components_v" layout="vertical"> <components nowrap="false" id="${name}_components_h1" layout="horizontal" makevertical="true"> <label id="${name}_label" labelcss="@{labelcss}" title="@{label}" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" instance-class="psdi.webclient.components.LongDescr iptionTitle" wraptext="true" textcss="@{textcss}" wraplength="@{wraplength}" labelfor="${name}_richtexteditor,${name}_richtextvi ewer,${name}_textarea"/> </components> <components id="${name}_components_h2" layout="horizontal"> <required-indicator id="${name}_required_indicator" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" /> </components> <components id="${name}_components_h3" layout="horizontal">
<!-- Comment out the richTextEditor if you do NOT want Rich test --> <!--<richtexteditor id="${name}_richtexteditor" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}"
plugins="@{plugins}" extra_plugins="@{extra_plugins}" dojo_require="@{dojo_require}" load_css="@{load_css}" dojo_type="@{dojo_type}" hidewhen="{mobile}==true" />-->
<!-- Comment out the richTextViewer if you do NOT want Rich Text --> <!--<richtextviewer id="${name}_richtextviewer" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==true" />-->
<!-- Comment out this textArea tag if you are NOT using rich text --> <!--<textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" hidewhen="{mobile}==false or {rendertextarea}==false" />-->
<!-- Un-comment this textArea if you are NOT using rich text --> <textarea id="${name}_textarea" dataattribute="@{dataattribute}" width="@{width}" height="@{height}" inputmode="@{inputmode}" textcss="@{textcss}" /> </components> <children id="${name}_children" layout="none" /> </components> </component-list>
7. Rebuild and redeploy of the EAR is required.
-----Original Message-----
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of dasisart
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:34 PM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
Hi Chris and John,
I hope you don't mind me following your post, but I would be very interested in the instructions you received form IBM. We have this problem also, and it causes more headaches than it is worth.
Thank You,
Michael
--- In MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> , "Hanna, Christopher A CTR" <christopher.a.hanna@...> wrote:
>
> We completely disabled rich text in the application shortly after we upgraded to 7.5. First thing to understand is that what they call "Rich Text" is actually HTML. We use Cognos for most of our reporting and Cognos didn't handle embedded HTML very well or at all. We made a couple attempts at creating functions to strip out the formatting tags, but what we found is that it was very high effort for the very low benefit of having Rich Text, so we just disabled it. I can forward the instructions from IBM for disabling if you chose to go that route.
>
> -Chris H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> On Behalf Of John Ballnik
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:23 PM
> To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:MAXIMO%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [MAXIMO List] Remove Rich Text in interface
>
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> We are including the LONG DESCRIPTION in our outbound interface, but
> when the data is sent out, the field looks like this in the XML file
>
> <DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION><span style="text-decoration:
> underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John is testing this
> out</span></span><br /><div></div><!-- RICH TEXT
> --></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to remove the rich text formatting?
>
> thanks,
> John
>
>
>