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Dgodsill
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October 19, 2018 9:23 am
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For example the description tab on stock items or CRM opportunities allow you to format data but it stores the HTML formatting in the text making it unusable on a report or GI.  Acuamatica dev says it is not possible.  https://feedback.acumatica.com/ideas/ACU-I-920

There must be some way to get this data by creating a SQL query and then creating a DAC or whatever.

 


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Dgodsill
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October 23, 2018 8:00 am
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This is from Acumatica L2 support

I just found better workaround for you.

You can customizae the CROpportunity by adding the calculated field that works similar to CRCase.DescriptionAsPlainText which is defined as follow:

 

#region DescriptionAsPlainText
        public abstract class descriptionAsPlainText : IBqlField { }

        private string _plainText;
        [PXString(IsUnicode = true)]
        [PXUIField(Visible = false)]
        [PXDependsOnFields(typeof(description))]
        public virtual String DescriptionAsPlainText
        {
            get
            {
                return _plainText ?? (_plainText = PX.Data.Search.SearchService.Html2PlainText(this.Description));
            }
        }
        #endregion


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Tim Rodman
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October 25, 2018 8:29 pm
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Cool! Thanks for sharing! I could see this technique being useful in a number of places.

FYI, I'm in JAMS M200 training this week. Finally found my way into the Manufacturing modules. It's been a fun couple of days. And John Pavain is in the class. So your name came up. It's such a small world.


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