Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

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I have a form that contains a rich text field called Details, which is set to Display using Java Applet. I have entered text into the field via the web and saved it. When I try to pick the data up using the following code (which I took from the notes help and modified the rich text field name to suit my needs), the msg is empty:

	Dim dc As NotesDocumentCollection

	Dim body As NotesRichTextItem

	Dim rtnav As NotesRichTextNavigator

	Dim rtrange As NotesRichTextRange

	Set db = session.CurrentDatabase

	Set dc = db.UnprocessedDocuments

	Set doc = dc.GetFirstDocument

	Set body = doc.GetFirstItem("Details")

REM Find paragraphs in Body item

	Set rtnav = body.CreateNavigator

	If rtnav.FindFirstElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TEXTPARAGRAPH) Then

		Set rtrange = body.CreateRange

		count% = 0

		Do

			count% = count% + 1

			msg$ = ""

  REM Set range for paragraph and display it

			Call rtrange.SetBegin(rtnav)

			msg$ = rtrange.TextParagraph

			Print msg$ &  " - Paragraph " & count%

		Loop While rtnav.FindNextElement(RTELEM_TYPE_TEXTPARAGRAPH)

	Else

		Print "No text in Body"

	End If

I don’t receive any error messages, so it just seems as though the field is empty.

I have posted several questions over the past couple of days with regards to accessing the rich text in a rich text field, and have had a lot of help to get me started. So I have been using examples in notes help to try and get a better understanding of these features, but have yet been able to get anything to work!!!

Any ideas about what I may be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

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Subject: Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

Lisa

How are you saving the form? Whenever I use the java applet I always use javascript, and do the following:

_getEditAppletData();

window.document.forms[0].submit;

This ensures that the content you have written in the java applet is written back to the underlying notes document.

Hope that helps

Ben

p.s. You may find that using the “Best fit for O/S” option on your Rich text field editor works better for you - it uses an ActiveX control instead of a java applet, if the browser supports it.

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Subject: Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

my understanding is that once you edit RT field using Java applet you store back not Notes rich text anymore, but MIME. And it’s a sad joke of a rich text + something you will not be able to access using Notes rich text classes – NotesRichTextNavigator and all.

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Subject: RE: Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

Thanks for all of the responses.

After another couple of days reviewing the NotesRichTextNavigator, etc. I decided that, while it would have been a nice option, rich text is not necessary. The amount of time I have already spent pursuing this option already has eaten up enough time!

Once again, thanks to all.

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Subject: Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

I m not sure if you want to get the pure text (without formating). If yes, below is the code

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Set body = doc.GetFirstItem(“Details”)

body.text

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Subject: RE: Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

I had done a simple test with my Db.

below is my code, I had tested with italics, bold, underline, bullet, link, and international character. All of them can be display out, but without their formatting.

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Dim s As New NotesSession

Dim v As NotesView

Dim doc As NotesDocument

Dim itm

Set v=s.CurrentDatabase.GetView(“Untitled”)

Set doc=v.GetLastDocument

Set itm=doc.GetFirstItem (“fld01”)

Msgbox itm.text

Set s=Nothing

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Subject: RE: Rich Text via the Web - Code Included

The Text property is just text, not text with codes or innerhtml or anything else. Just plain text.