Clarity

Hi everyone,

do you know any way to xog write a carry return in a text field?

I've been looking through the communities and I couldn't find anything related

Regards!

try playing around with

   
  and/or  


(I don't remember the subtleties of which one you use when!)  

You can get the OS dependent  lineSeparator like this.

V/r,

Gene

<core:invokeStatic class='java.lang.System' method='lineSeparator' var='lineSeparator' />

^ think thats a GEL answer rather than a XOG one

(but great info anyway  )

Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately the solution is not working.

Wherever we use ${lineSeparator} in our GEL Script to set our var values they are lost and it doesn't put a carry return in the destination field.

Is there anything else we could do?

Regards

Have you tried 


I don't think you have not described the problem in detail.

Do you want to insert line breaks and carriage returns in a text field or do you want to maintain/keep line breaks that are already there?

When it goes to gel there are threads which might help.

https://communities.ca.com/message/241953703-re-how-to-remove-line-breaks-in-gel-script-to-file?commentID=241953703#comm… 

and

https://communities.ca.com/thread/101116630?commentID=101123795#comment-101123795 

When there is a script with a query then that opens the possibility to use SQL for the breaks.

This is what we want to accomplish: Editing General Notes field with additional info on an Idea instance.

Sadly, this is the result we get:

We've tried both options:

<core:set var="newGeneralNotes">${newGeneralNotes.concat(lineSeparator+"[ADDITIONAL INFO] "+newInfo)}</core:set>
<core:set var="newGeneralNotes" value='${IdeaGeneralNotes}&#xd;&#xA;[ADDITIONAL INFO]: ${newInfo}'/>

And then the XOG XML:

[...]
<NikuDataBus xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../xsd/nikuxog_idea.xsd">
  <Header action="write" externalSource="niku" objectType="idea" version="8.0"/>
  <Ideas>                           
    <Idea name="${PRName}" objectID="${ideaCode}" description="${PRDescription}"
      generalNotes="${newGeneralNotes}">
[...]

No matter the option, the ${newGeneralNotes} loses the new lines.

We certainly cannot find a way around.

Dave's way works.  For windows it is 
 linux just 


  xmlns:core="jelly:core"
  xmlns:gel="jelly:com.niku.union.gel.GELTagLibrary">

     <gel:log>Start Test lineSeparator</gel:log>

     <core:invokeStatic className="java.lang.System" method="getProperty" var="lineSeparator">
          <core:arg type="java.lang.String" value="line.separator" />
     </core:invokeStatic>

     <core:set var="testVar1">lineSeparator</core:set>
     <core:set var="testVar1">${testVar1.concat(lineSeparator+"One")}</core:set>
     <core:set var="testVar1">${testVar1.concat(lineSeparator+"Two")}</core:set>
     <core:set var="testVar1">${testVar1.concat(lineSeparator+"Three")}</core:set>
     <core:set var="testVar1">${testVar1.concat(lineSeparator+"Four")}</core:set>
     <core:set var="testVar1">${testVar1.concat(lineSeparator+"Five")}</core:set>

     <core:set var="testVar2">&#xd;&#xA;</core:set>
     <core:set var="testVar2" value='${testVar2}&#xd;&#xA;One'/>
     <core:set var="testVar2" value='${testVar2}&#xd;&#xA;Two'/>
     <core:set var="testVar2" value='${testVar2}&#xd;&#xA;Three'/>
     <core:set var="testVar2" value='${testVar2}&#xd;&#xA;Four'/>
     <core:set var="testVar2" value='${testVar2}&#xd;&#xA;Five'/>


     <gel:log>${testVar1}</gel:log>
     <gel:log>${testVar2}</gel:log>

</gel:script>

V/r,

Gene

I use 

 in a GEL script that creates a XOG file to load "large string" data to the application

So can you try;

<core:set var="newGeneralNotes" value='${IdeaGeneralNotes}&#xA;&#xA;[ADDITIONAL INFO]: ${newInfo}'/>

?

Same result. This time it added 2 blank spaces instead of one, but no line breaks.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Agh - the 

 works for me; APP, BG service running on Windows.

We are using Redhat. Maybe is something related with the OS...

Any idea about our OS code for that?