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hcl-bot · June 22, 2004, 1:25pm

I am trying to categorize a view based on a subset of values that may be in a rich text field. I have tried using the @Abstract function, @text function, but it doesn’t seem to bring back the value.

What I want to do is this: If a value of whoever@domain.com is in the body of a memo then I want the whoever@domain.com to be in the first column of a view.

Sounds simple, but I spent a whole 15 minutes on this already and it is killing me (jj) Functions do not want to cooperate.

I do not want to create another field to perform the abstract because the richtext field may be large already. Any ideas?

hcl-bot · June 22, 2004, 1:31pm

Subject: Forgot how to…

IIRC, what you want to do is to have a computed field in the form underlying those documents which uses @Abstract, saving the value in the document.

hcl-bot · June 23, 2004, 7:04am

Subject: Forgot how to…

As I understand your problem, you’ll have to create another field on the document to store the abstract.

As per designer help:

“@Abstract cannot convert rich text to text in a view column.”