how to remove the formatting from a DNG artifact?
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The only way I've ever found to remove of formatting that I can't change from inside the tool is a round-trip export/import to CSV.
The trick is that when you re-import the CSV file, DNG looks at the artifact contents and only updates things that have changed. So you need to modify your artifacts' text. If that change is something you're not willing to live with, you'd then need to change it back and re-import everything again.
I always do this stuff using change sets so that if something doesn't work the way I want it to I can discard the change set and try again.
This works well to get rid of those <blockquote> XML tags that cause large indentation steps that you can't remove via the editor. We ended up with a lot of artifacts containing these things from our original import from Word into DOORS, and they didn't go away when we migrated to DNG (although I understand they've changed this behavior for migrations in newer versions of DNG than I've got).
Keep in mind that using CSV will remove all of your artifacts' rich text formatting. If there's some formatting in there that you want to keep, you have to decide if it's worth the effort of stripping it all out and then re-formatting whatever you need formatted by hand afterwards.
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Carol Watson
Oct 17 '19, 9:11 a.m.Hi Vani,