EDITABLE RICH Text

RE: EDITABLE RICH Text

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:10:49 GMT

Hi Abhishek,

Yes we have a component that will solve your problem. Its is a custom plug-in designed by Appian itself.
You can find it here - https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/rich-text-editor

Thanks
-Harshit

RE: EDITABLE RICH Text

GaryK — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:19:03 GMT

Hi Mark, do you have some example code for above to understand how can we build this.

For example, if there is one field with Label Name, User click on that field then RTF Editor should open with some styles , then user enter details in field and select some style. How can we achieve it.

RE: EDITABLE RICH Text

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:30:27 GMT

More like, tell the users some syntax they can enter in plain text, similar to what's used in JIRA or some message forums - i.e. *italicized*, **bolded**, _underlined_ ... they would enter this plaintext and this is what you'd store (in PV or in database etc).

But then you would build a parser - i.e. a combination of expression rule(s) and interface component(s) which breaks up the text in question and displays it in a rich text field with the appropriate modifiers on it. This could be shown both on the entry form (so the user can validate what they're entering as they enter it) as well as in any subsequent instances where their text it displayed.

RE: EDITABLE RICH Text

Abhishek Gaddam — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:26:26 GMT

Hi Mike, Thanks for the response, I am trying to understand what kind of parsing we are talking here.By parsing you mean write a customized html or use richtextfieldcomponents ? and if I do parsing that means , do I have to store all the filters selected by user in a table and apply them every time user views the paragraph field ? .

RE: EDITABLE RICH Text

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:16:54 GMT

There's not out-of-box rich text editor (yet), though there has been at least a little bit of demand.
If it's a hard requirement and provided the required formatting is simple enough (i.e. just bold, italics and/or underline), you could provide the users with a syntax to enter their own rich text and write your own parser. The input field they enter text could have a mirror field below where you show the formatted rich text output.