To convert HTML character to plain text

[pratik_kumar]

Hi All,

I have a requirement to create a business rule which should copy plain text from Html field("field name: unit_description") and update it to a text filed(field name :"u_so_description")

I created this business rule

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {

var a=current.unit_description.getXHTMLValue();

//to remove HTML text...

a= a.replace(/&(lt|gt);/g, function (strMatch, p1){

return (p1 == "lt")? "<" : ">";

});

var b = a.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "");

current.setDisplayValue('u_so_description',b);

})(current, previous);

This business rule is replacing all symbols except &.

For & still i am getting &amp; in plain text.

Kindly help me on this/

[Shishir Srivast]

Please check if this helps:

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {

var a=current.unit_description.getXHTMLValue();

//to remove HTML text...

a= a.replace(/&(lt|gt);/g, function (strMatch, p1){

return (p1 == "lt")? "<" : ">";

});

var b = a.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "");

var c = b.replace(&amp, '&');

current.setDisplayValue('u_so_description',c);

})(current, previous);

[pratik_kumar]

Still i am getting error

[vinothkumar]

Hi Pratik,

Can you check the below link and try it. I have tried for getting the knowledge text in the background script and it is working fine. Can you check it and let us know if it helped?

How to get raw text from HTML field?

[Shishir Srivast]

Please check if this helps:

var c = b.replace('&amp', '&');