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LongDescription looses its formatting

peraka

Hi All, We've a requirement to display long description in report and we're able to display it. But the problem is it looses its formatting like line breaks etc,. Is there any way to display long description, as it is, it is in Maximo Long Description window. ? Thanks,Suresh.

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micajblock

Are you using a Text report item? How is the data stored in a long description? Is it rich text? Can you provide an example?

peraka

It's in Maximo 7.1. It is stored as plain text.

micajblock

Line break is not plain text. How is the line break stored in the database? If I use the database query tool what do you see?

peraka

I see spaces when query database.

micajblock

What happens when you copy and paste in word? What table has a long description? I looked at the long description window and there are other formatting option like bold and bullets. It might be stored as plain text but there has to be some kind of tags on the text. it could be HTML tags or RTF tags. Can you copy and paste an example in to this thread?

peraka

## Below is the actual text stored in Long Description## Executing Additional Queries -- You can run additional queries in both the Open and Fetch methods. Each methodcan have one or more additional queries returning one or more fields. -- The following sections describe these types of queries. -- ## Below is how it displays in BIRT Report ## Executing Additional Queries -- You can run additional queries in both the Open and Fetch methods. Each methodcan have one or more additional queries returning one or more fields. --The following sections describe these types of queries. --

micajblock

OK, I just found the long description table and here is an example:<pre class="_prettyXprint"><div> </div><ul><li> This relationship was createdautomatically by Maximo. A relationship can be identified as a reference point. When that relationship is applied to a linear asset, a feature is created automatically. This feature can then be used as a reference point on work orders, much in the same way that mile posts are used.</li><li>The use case for this is cities, where they don't have mile posts. They typically use distance from an intersection to determine work location.</li></ul></pre>Note the HTML tags. So what you need is a Dynamic Text report item and make sure the property Content Type is set to HTML.