String type field not getting converted to HTML

[Tapish Sharma1]

Hi,

I wanted to change the field type of few fields from string to HTML. I changed it from the dictionary but the fields still are string. How to convert them to HTML ? Changing type is not working .

[Hitoshi Ozawa · Accepted solution]

Hi Tapish,

The recommended approach is to (1) create a new field of type HTML, (2) copy the content of String field to HTML field, (3)delete the String field.

[Tapish Sharma1]

Hi hitoshi,

Thanks for your reply , was just wandering it should allow to convert from string to html right ? 

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

Sorry. My bad.

I was able to convert a String field to HTML field by changing the type AND changing the "Max length" from 40 to 65536.

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

One additional note, be sure the string does not contain special HTML characters such as "&" and "<" characters.