Convert Rich text field to normal text
Hi community,
Do you know of any way of converting a field from rich text to normal text?
The oposite is possible: change a field from normal text to rich text but the opposite seems not to be true.
I have a customer that allready has data in a rich text field that stores email addresses and I need to use that email into a business process,
but the email business process element does not read rich text (but it reads normal text)
Thanks,
Luis
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Unless I am misunderstanding something, you could use a formula to read the richtext value and put in a text parameter, then use the text parameter for the email.
Ryan
Also, does he want/need the field to be a rich text for email? or was it a mistake? because the metadata of the object could be edited directly to change a field from rich text to text
Hi Jesus
It does not need to be rich text, it was a mistake.
This field only stores email addresses.
The option to change a field from rich text to normal text is not present in Creatio. It is possible to do the opposite.
Rgds,
Luis
You can actually change it from rich text to normal text. Just that it is not intuitive. You have to go to the object, get into the metadata and edit the field type with the corresponding Id. Then you have to change the fields that are already at the view to normal text in the source code. The designer would show the possibility to add the field as a normal text now, but the field on the view appears as rich text, although it's not actually saving rich text