How Can I Replace Text Characters in RTC via Attribute Customization Javascript?
I am writing an attribute customization script in RTC to evaluate the contents of a Work Item's description field. I want to be able to do a compare on the text and disregard any HTML formatting that may be present. To do this, I am trying to perform a javascript replace function on the text string that I am evaluating. However, the replace function isn't working. It isn't causing an error, but it's not having any effect either.
Example:
Input:text = "<b>Solutions Considered:</b><br/>";
Replace command:
text = text.replace(/<b>|<\/b>|<i>|<\/i>|<br\/>/, "");
Expected result:
text = "Solutions Considered:"
Actual result:
text = "<b>Solutions Considered:</b><br/>";
I've tested this in a JavaScript editor and it produces the expected results there. Does RTC not support the JavaScript replace function? Do I need to specify a dojo.require command in order to have the replace work as expected?
P.S. Jazz.net, you guys really need to figure out how to allow me to display HTML tags without interpreting them as HTML.3 answers
did you try wrapping the 1st string in quotes?
also, do you know that the string has the html in it at the time you are doing the replace?
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Like Sam said, you'd better do some debugging to make sure the string being processed is what you believe to be. For example, the " < b > " may already be "escaped" to " & l t ; b & g t ; " when your script "sees" the string. Note the script may be evaluated on both the client and server side, and you have to debug it in both cases. Function console.log() should be a good starting point.
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RTC v 6.0.2
I also encountered the same issue. I was auto-populating Description field based on value of an enumeration and was getting HTML value instead of text in Description field.
I made some modifications in the script which resolved it.
This answer is in continuation of my previous question.
Pasting the working script below.
dojo.provide("com.example.DescriptionValue");
dojo.require("com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.WorkItemAttributes");
dojo.require("dojox.html.entities");
(function() {
var WorkItemAttributes= com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.WorkItemAttributes;
dojo.declare("com.example.DescriptionValue", null, {
getValue: function(attributeId, workItem, configuration) {
var attr = "com.ibm.team.workitem.attribute.business"; // ID of attribute Business. (Business is an enumeration)
var val_bus = workItem.getValue(attr);
var descrip = workItem.getValue(WorkItemAttributes.DESCRIPTION);
if(descrip === ""){
if (val_bus === "com.ibm.team.workitem.enumeration.business.literal.l4"){
descrip = "Description: \nWhere and when found: \nHow found: ";
return descrip;
}
else if (val_bus === "com.ibm.team.workitem.enumeration.business.literal.l6"){
descrip = "Description:\nObservation:\nSafety Impact:";
return descrip;
}
}
descrip = dojox.html.entities.decode(descrip); // This is removing all characters except <br/>
var br_def = "<br/>"; // Below lines are to check if multiple <br/> are present and remove all.
while(descrip.includes(br_def)){
var i = 0;
descrip = descrip.replace('<br/>','\n');
}
return descrip;
}
});
})();
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