AboutPaski K. Paskaradevan Expertise I have 3 + years in Lotus Notes application development. I am a CLP R5 Application Development. I can answer any question pertaining to application development.
Experience R5 CLP. In addition, I have a bachelors degree in Engineering and a MBA.
Expert: Paski K. Paskaradevan Date: 6/6/2008 Subject: Add Body field in Task in Instance view
Question QUESTION: Hello Paski,
LN release: 5.0.12
I created a new view trying to add the Task Body field in the view.
I understand that the Body field is a rich text and cannot be directly displayed in the view column.
Thanks 4 your help
Jerome
ANSWER: Hi,
Yes, you are correct. A rich text field cannot be shown in a view.
A work around is to create a computed field in the form, use @Abstract to get the rich text field value and populate it into this field. Then you can show this field in the view.
I hope this helps.
Regards.
Paski
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QUESTION: Hello Paski, me again,
The @Abstract could have work, still the help page found on ibm site (*) states that "@Abstract cannot convert rich text to text in a view column." which the aim of my query.
I told you to create a computed field on the form and then show that field. If you cannot use richtext field in a view column, how can you use @Abstract in the view column? You cannot reference a rt field in a view column.
