Copying a field content to another

[rob_blakey]

Hi ServiceNow Community,

I am having some scripting issues attempting to copy the following:

I created a new field within the Change Management Module called "Change Description". The reason for this is that I wanted to have the change description field HTML but not impact the description field that sits across the task table.

What I would like to do is copy the text content from the Change Description field "u_change_description_html" into the standard "description" field.

I have attempted business rules and client scripts, but nothing I have tried seemed to help. I did see a few comments about this in other forums however, nothing seemed to work for me.

If anyone has any suggestions or has already created a script for this it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Rob

[Gurpreet07]

Try something like following code this in Business rule

var str   = current.u_change_description_html;

str =   str.substring(str.indexOf('>##'),str.indexOf('##<'));

current.description = str;

[rob_blakey]

I would like it to remove all HTML tags not just the #..

eg. remove the <p> and styles and font-size etc.. all HTML related tags and convert it to plain text

[Gurpreet07]

Well you could do that too by adding or subtracting character sequence .

str =   str.substring(str.indexOf('>##')+1,str.indexOf('##<')+2);

[Pradeep Sharma]

Hi @rob_blakey,

Write a onSubmit client script with the following code. Please let me know the outcome.

function onSubmit() {

   //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

   var des = g_form.getValue('u_change_description_html');

   var StrippedString = des.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"");

   g_form.setValue('description',StrippedString);



   //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

}

[senderxu]

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