eMaint X3’s multi-line text fields can be configured to display its text in HTML formatting. This can be especially useful when displaying sequential numbered or bulleted lists or perhaps adding more format features such as fonts, font color and sizes, and tables. The HTML Editor feature will provide a more user-friendly format and print layout.
EnablingtheHTMLEditor
Multi-line Text fields can be given an HTML Editor interface for Multi-Line Text fields. When editing a work order with the HTML Editor behavior on a multi-line text field (such as the Work Description field on Work Orders), a user may see this:
To access this HTML Editor interface, click on the box in the top right of the field. This will open the formatting interface in-line with the rest of the form:
This HTML Editor allows HTML content to display properly on the detail and edit views without restricting direct editing. Additionally, the HTML Editor interface is also available when editing in place with a save button at the right of the top row, as shown above.
EnablingtheHTMLInterface
Option 1, LeteMaintdoitforyouasneeded:
The HTML Editor interface will be enabled automatically in areas where you have previously entered HTML type content. What this means is that if you view or edit a task, work order, or any other area of the system and any of the fields contain HTML content, the field will automatically turn on its HTML capabilities for this record and any other record in the system. If you have never used HTML then the field will remain a plain text entry field until an admin changes its behavior. This process will seamlessly convert all fields holding HTML content to the new interface without converting fields where the HTML Editor is not necessary. This brings us to the next option...
Option 2, TurningontheHTMLeditormanually:
Any Multi-Line Text field can be configured to display the HTML Editor interface. This configuration is stored in the Behavior drop-down in the field’s Properties display.
All Multi-Line Text fields initially start with the Default behavior, which causes no HTML Editor to display.
To manually configure a Multi-Line Text field to enable or disable the HTML Editor, a user must have permission to customize forms. First, open the Customize Form interface from the Options menu for the form that contains the field:
Then, click the wrench and screwdriver icon next to the Multi-Line Text field:
You will now see a popup with the Multi-Line Text field’s properties. In the drop-down next to Type, you may decide how the field behaves:
Default: This field will not display any HTML Editor interface when editing field values and will display field values as plain text in the detail view.
HTMLEditor: This field will display the new HTML Editor interface when editing field values and will display field values as HTML content in the detail view.
After choosing the value for the desired behavior, click the Save button in the bottom right. You may now close the Properties popup and exit design mode to return to the form and use the newly configured field.