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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / April 2007Transfer text from Rich Text Box
Does anyone know of a way to transfer text from one rich text box to another and being able to keep the return lines in there. Thanks, Andrew Hi You can transfer the text but the carriage returns will not pass accross. just set the second RTB's default value to the first job done. Cheers Adam > Does anyone know of a way to transfer text from one rich text box to another > and being able to keep the return lines in there. > > Thanks, > Andrew The contents of a rich text box is stored as XHTML. To preserve line breaks, which are essentially achieved through the use of <DIV> elements within the contents of the rich text box, you would have to copy the entire XML content of the node pertaining to the first rich text box, create a new node, set the XML content of the newly created node to the content copied from the first rich text box, and then replace the node pertaining to the second rich text box with the new node using replaceChild(). --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Does anyone know of a way to transfer text from one rich text box to another > and being able to keep the return lines in there. > > Thanks, > Andrew It seems that InfoPath will not allow me to do this in code. I think I might have to write a webservice to transfer the text. > The contents of a rich text box is stored as XHTML. To preserve line breaks, > which are essentially achieved through the use of <DIV> elements within the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks, > > Andrew If your scenario includes simply copying text from one RTF to another on one InfoPath form, then this is doable through code without using a web service. I don't understand why you would need a web service. Is there a database (that you haven't mentioned) somewhere in the equation? --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > It seems that InfoPath will not allow me to do this in code. I think I might > have to write a webservice to transfer the text. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > Thanks, > > > Andrew Nope no database. I have code behind in c#. I created a test form that just has a Rich TextBox a and b. And when the user submits the form I would like to transfer the Rich Text from A to B and beable to keep the line breaks. I've tried to do something like this Node = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:a").cloneNode(False) thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:b").appendChild(Node) I do understand why that won't work but I'm still new to XML. and If I do this ... thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:b").text = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:a").text Then it copies the text over without keeping the line breaks. Thanks for any help! - Andrew > If your scenario includes simply copying text from one RTF to another on one > InfoPath form, then this is doable through code without using a web service. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew If your RTF-a contains line breaks and you put a breakpoint on e.g. string RTF-a = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:a").xml; you will see a bunch of <DIV> elements contained in <my:a>. What worked for me was to build a loop over the childNodes contained in <my:a> and then compose a string from these childNodes. I haven't yet found a "nicer" way to copy the XML inside a node. You can do a check on thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:a").hasChildNodes() before starting the loop over the childNodes. Then you must retrieve the nodeName, nodeType, and namespaceURI of <my:b> (these are all properties of a node) and use them to create the new XML for this node as a string that contains the inner XML copied from <my:a>. You can then use thisXDocument.CreateDOM() to instantiate a new XML node (we'll call this newChild), and then newChild.loadXML() to load the XML string for the new <my:b> into this new XML node. Then you retrieve the old <my:b> (let's call it oldChild) and with a replaceChild(), you replace it with the new XML node for <my:b> like this oldChild.parentNode.replaceChild(newChild.documentElement, oldChild); Hope this helps. If you're still having difficulty getting this to work, I'll convert your scenario to a "recipe" (=solution) and post it on my website this weekend. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Nope no database. I have code behind in c#. I created a test form that just > has a Rich TextBox a and b. And when the user submits the form I would like [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Andrew Thank you for all of your help!! I got it working this morning. The only difference I had to make was I also needed to keep everything that is in the OldChile. So that the new text would be first then the old test second. Oh you mentioned that you have a website, may I have the web address to check it out? Thank you again!! - Andrew > If your RTF-a contains line breaks and you put a breakpoint on e.g. > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Andrew Glad to hear that you got it to work! And since you did, I won't be posting the solution on my website. But you're free to check out the website at http://enterprise-solutions.swits.net --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Thank you for all of your help!! I got it working this morning. The only > difference I had to make was I also needed to keep everything that is in the [quoted text clipped - 83 lines] > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > Andrew Hi My name is Gustavo from Monterrey mexico I have the same problem, but i have one Rich Text field with tables, text in bold, text in different size, etc...and i would like to copy the values from one field to another field, do you think this code could be used also to pass that kind of information? > If your RTF-a contains line breaks and you put a breakpoint on e.g. > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Andrew If the other field is a richt text field, then yes, the same principles should apply. If you're using InfoPath 2007, you might even get away with using the InnerXml property to transfer the entire contents in one step; I haven't tried it out, though. I would say: Just give it a go and see if it works. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Hi My name is Gustavo from Monterrey mexico > [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > Andrew Thanks for your quick answer. And yes both fields are rich text. I'm trying to use your suggestion about how to transfer text from one field to another, but i'm having problems when i want to do the replace child instruction. My field "B" does not have any child node....so, How can i create a new child for my field "B" where i want to pass the rich text value from my field "A" ?, i mean i can do a loop for my field "A" and get the XML data, but i don't understand how to pass every XML data for each child of my field "A" to my field "B". > If the other field is a richt text field, then yes, the same principles > should apply. If you're using InfoPath 2007, you might even get away with [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Andrew You can do it on a number of ways. Which version of InfoPath are you using? --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Thanks for your quick answer. > [quoted text clipped - 98 lines] > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > Andrew I'm using InfoPath 2003. Finally i found a way to do it. A little different than your suggestions, but following your instructions. One thing different that i did was copy the xml of my field A into a string variable and only replace the name of the child for the field2 and then do a replace child from parent node of both fields. IXMLDOMNode node1 = doc.DOM.documentElement.selectSingleNode("./my:parentnode/my:Field1"); if (node1 != null) { IXMLDOMDocument newchild = doc.CreateDOM(); childtext = node1.xml.ToString(); string newtxtofnode2= childtext.Replace("NameOfChild_1", "NameOfChild_2"); newchild.loadXML(newtxtofnode2); oldchild = doc.DOM.documentElement.selectSingleNode("./my:ParentNode/my:Field2"); oldchild.parentNode.replaceChild(newchild.documentElement, oldchild); } And it works !! Thanks for your help ! > You can do it on a number of ways. Which version of InfoPath are you using? > --- [quoted text clipped - 102 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Andrew |
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