Scripts and use of bold or italic

[Victor Warner]

Would it be possible in a script to use formatting commands such as bold or italic. For example if if there is the following statement:

result = "and that the annexed paper writing is a complete and exact copy of the " + record.getFieldValue(type_of_document_id) + " of XXXX " + record.getFieldValue(number_of_pages_for_certificate_id) + " that I had caused to be printed on " + record.getFieldValue(date_of_companies_house_inspection_as_text_id);

and I wished to make the following text

of XXXX

bold would this be possible within the script?

[Brendan]

Hi Victor,

I’m sorry but it won’t be possible. I don’t have support for specifying font attributes for text ranges from within a script. And only a Note field can support rich text like that.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Victor Warner]

Brendan,

Thank you for letting me know.

Victor

[T.L. Ford]

I was also looking for a script way to set bold/italic.

My preference would be for:
setNoteFieldValue() to take 3 arguments where the last one is true/false for “am I providing HTML” with a default of false.

NSAttributedString ought to have a function for converting an HTML string. If it fails, it could just toss it in as plain text or throw the error with “dolt. format your html right” except said more politely.

As a random side note, my forum search turned up a post titled:
Feature request: markdown format support in notes field
which appears to be on the private Beta Team Forum (and clicking on it did not go to the post, but went to the Membership page header).
Which suggests you are already studying this puzzle, or have studied it, or have added it or decided it was more trouble than it was worth.

[Daniel Leu]

I would use Markdown which is supported with version 5.3.13 (Build 1837). It is a separate field type.

[T.L. Ford]

Ah, I overlooked that field type. I can’t seem to guess the correct format for the data. Apparently it doesn’t like my trials because I can crash Tap Forms with things like hello and then trying to save the changes.

[Daniel Leu]

I’m using plain text and that works for me:

var mdId = 'fld-f88c028ed8004a7684287732ef97099d';
var md = record.getFieldValue(mdId);

console.log(md);

record.setFieldValue(mdId, md + "\n\n" + "# My very own title");
form.saveAllChanges();

[T.L. Ford]

It was crashing just trying to add data through the regular form; hadn’t gotten to code yet. I’m able to use/push to the Note field without a problem, just no bold/italic formatting. I’d need the right syntax for the Markdown field type.

– T

[Daniel Leu]

_italic_ **bold**

[T.L. Ford]

Thank you!

[Sam Moffatt]

Here’s a syntax reference for Markdown, not sure 100% of it works with the TF implementation due to issues with how it needs to get printed but it should give you a good idea of what to try at least.

[T.L. Ford]

Thanks! I’ll give it a try.

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