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markdowntosail function

Dai Williams
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Hi, 

I am trying to convert HTML I receive from a web service in to rich text. 

I have tried using the markdowntosail function found in Markdown to SAIL (v1.0.0) [com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.richtexttools] component and using it on 20.1

The purpose is to ensure I retain URL's that are held within the HTML.

Any other ideas/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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    Certified Lead Developer

    In the past I've written out-of-box Appian expression rules that parse certain simple HTML formatting to display in Rich Text on an Appian form (read-only of course).  It only supports bold, italic, underline, linebreaks, and hyperlinks.  If that sounds like enough for you, then I could dig up and attempt to post them here. Note it also does require the Regex Utilities plug-in.

  • 0 in reply to Mike Schmitt

    Hi Mike, I am looking for the expression rule that you described in your post. Would you be willing to share your code with me or post it here? thank you.

  • 0
    Certified Lead Developer
     in reply to Michal Bönisch

    I thought I'd ended up posting this somewhere but after this long I have no  idea... so i'll attach it below:

    /* rule!GLBL_CMPT_RichTextHTMLPreview */
a!localVariables(
  local!formatBreakdown: rule!GLBL_UTIL_GetParsedRichTextBreakdown(htmlText: ri!htmlText),
  
  a!richTextDisplayField(
    label: ri!label,
    labelPosition: rule!GLBL_replaceNull(ri!labelPosition, "COLLAPSED"),
    instructions: ri!instructions,
    showWhen: ri!showWhen,
    value: {
      a!forEach(
        local!formatBreakdown,
        a!richTextItem(
          text:  rule!GLBL_UTIL_FormatHTMLLinebreaksForTextDisplay(
            htmlText: fv!item.row
          ),
          style: {
            fv!item.formats
          },
          link: a!safeLink(
            uri: fv!item.link,
            showWhen: not(rule!GLBL_isBlank(fv!item.link))
          )
        )
      )
    }
  )
)

/* rule!GLBL_UTIL_GetParsedRichTextBreakdown */
a!localVariables(
  local!formatChangeMarker: "[[[formatChange]]]",

  local!test: regexreplaceall(
    pattern: "(<[biu]>|<a href="".+?""|</[biua]>)",
    searchstring: ri!htmltext,
    replacementString: local!formatChangeMarker & "$1"
  ),
  local!array: split(local!test, local!formatChangeMarker),

  local!formatMarks: a!forEach(
    local!array,

    tostring(
      if(
        left(fv!item, 8) = "<a href=",
        "a{{" & extract(fv!item, "<a href=""", """>") & "}}",
        extract(
          left(fv!item, 4),
          "<",
          ">"
        )
      )
    )
  ),

  a!forEach(
    local!formatMarks,
    with(
      local!list: joinarray(index(local!formatMarks, enumerate(fv!index)+1), ";"),
      local!list1: regexreplaceall( "b(.+?)/b", local!list, "$1"),
      local!list2: regexreplaceall( "i(.+?)/i", local!list1, "$1"),
      local!list3: regexreplaceall( "u(.+?)/u", local!list2, "$1"),
      local!list4: regexreplaceall( "a\{\{.+?\}\}(.+?)/a", local!list3, "$1"),
      {
        row: regexreplaceall("<[bui]>|<a href="".+?"">|</[buia]>", local!array[fv!index], ""),
        formats: touniformstring(
          a!forEach(
            rule!GLBL_UTIL_removeBlankValuesFromArray( trim(split(local!list4, ";")) ),
            if(
              fv!item = "i",
              "EMPHASIS",
              fv!item = "b",
              "STRONG",
              fv!item = "u",
              "UNDERLINE",
              left(fv!item,1) = "a",
              {},
              ""
            )
          )
        ),
        link: tostring(
          rule!GLBL_UTIL_removeBlankValuesFromArray(
            touniformstring(
              a!forEach(
                trim(split(local!list4, ";")),
                extract(fv!item, "a{{", "}}")
              )
            )
          )
        )
      }
    )
  )
)


/* rule!GLBL_UTIL_FormatHTMLLinebreaksForTextDisplay */
a!localVariables(
  local!lineBrokenText: regexreplaceall(
    "<br */*>",
    substitute(
      substitute(ri!htmlText, char(13), ""),
      char(10), 
      ""
    ),
    char(10)
  ),
  
  local!lineBrokenText
)

    Note that this is 3 separate expression rules; also they make use of a few helper expression rules (like "ReplaceNull" and "RemoveBlankArrayMembers") that you may need to implement yourself in your own system and swap in for the rules named in these.

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    Certified Lead Developer
     in reply to Michal Bönisch

    I thought I'd ended up posting this somewhere but after this long I have no  idea... so i'll attach it below:

    /* rule!GLBL_CMPT_RichTextHTMLPreview */
a!localVariables(
  local!formatBreakdown: rule!GLBL_UTIL_GetParsedRichTextBreakdown(htmlText: ri!htmlText),
  
  a!richTextDisplayField(
    label: ri!label,
    labelPosition: rule!GLBL_replaceNull(ri!labelPosition, "COLLAPSED"),
    instructions: ri!instructions,
    showWhen: ri!showWhen,
    value: {
      a!forEach(
        local!formatBreakdown,
        a!richTextItem(
          text:  rule!GLBL_UTIL_FormatHTMLLinebreaksForTextDisplay(
            htmlText: fv!item.row
          ),
          style: {
            fv!item.formats
          },
          link: a!safeLink(
            uri: fv!item.link,
            showWhen: not(rule!GLBL_isBlank(fv!item.link))
          )
        )
      )
    }
  )
)

/* rule!GLBL_UTIL_GetParsedRichTextBreakdown */
a!localVariables(
  local!formatChangeMarker: "[[[formatChange]]]",

  local!test: regexreplaceall(
    pattern: "(<[biu]>|<a href="".+?""|</[biua]>)",
    searchstring: ri!htmltext,
    replacementString: local!formatChangeMarker & "$1"
  ),
  local!array: split(local!test, local!formatChangeMarker),

  local!formatMarks: a!forEach(
    local!array,

    tostring(
      if(
        left(fv!item, 8) = "<a href=",
        "a{{" & extract(fv!item, "<a href=""", """>") & "}}",
        extract(
          left(fv!item, 4),
          "<",
          ">"
        )
      )
    )
  ),

  a!forEach(
    local!formatMarks,
    with(
      local!list: joinarray(index(local!formatMarks, enumerate(fv!index)+1), ";"),
      local!list1: regexreplaceall( "b(.+?)/b", local!list, "$1"),
      local!list2: regexreplaceall( "i(.+?)/i", local!list1, "$1"),
      local!list3: regexreplaceall( "u(.+?)/u", local!list2, "$1"),
      local!list4: regexreplaceall( "a\{\{.+?\}\}(.+?)/a", local!list3, "$1"),
      {
        row: regexreplaceall("<[bui]>|<a href="".+?"">|</[buia]>", local!array[fv!index], ""),
        formats: touniformstring(
          a!forEach(
            rule!GLBL_UTIL_removeBlankValuesFromArray( trim(split(local!list4, ";")) ),
            if(
              fv!item = "i",
              "EMPHASIS",
              fv!item = "b",
              "STRONG",
              fv!item = "u",
              "UNDERLINE",
              left(fv!item,1) = "a",
              {},
              ""
            )
          )
        ),
        link: tostring(
          rule!GLBL_UTIL_removeBlankValuesFromArray(
            touniformstring(
              a!forEach(
                trim(split(local!list4, ";")),
                extract(fv!item, "a{{", "}}")
              )
            )
          )
        )
      }
    )
  )
)


/* rule!GLBL_UTIL_FormatHTMLLinebreaksForTextDisplay */
a!localVariables(
  local!lineBrokenText: regexreplaceall(
    "<br */*>",
    substitute(
      substitute(ri!htmlText, char(13), ""),
      char(10), 
      ""
    ),
    char(10)
  ),
  
  local!lineBrokenText
)

    Note that this is 3 separate expression rules; also they make use of a few helper expression rules (like "ReplaceNull" and "RemoveBlankArrayMembers") that you may need to implement yourself in your own system and swap in for the rules named in these.

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