Read a text file into a text attribute

customaware

Can anyone please advice if there is a way to import a text file into a TEXT attribute.

I want ALL the text in the file to be written to a single TEXT attribute. Not a Document attribute.

Ideas would be appreciated.

hpl123

Mark,
Try using the URL_CONTENTS function. Try first to just use a link/url to your text file and if that doesn't work, try renaming the text file to html before calling it. Not sure this will work and maybe not the ideal solution.

Support, I actually also have use for a function to do what Mark needs and having a TXT_CONTENTS function or something else would be nice.

hpl123

I can confirm that this solution (URL_CONTENTS) works for this. Place your txt file somewhere where you can reach it via an http adress and call it with the function. You don´t have to change the txt extention to html.

The ideal would be to call an internal path (awareim/myfile.txt) instead of a url but I haven´t tried to do this yet. If you Mark or anyone else does this please write a comment.

customaware

OK, URL_CONTENTS works in a fashion..... BUT...

My startup.html file looks like this..... see below for what is look like when I import it...

</head>
<body>

	// find the DIV with XML node
	var div = Ext.get ('main_screen');
	if (div == null)
		return;

	var xmlText = "";
	for (var i = 0; i < div.dom.childNodes.length; ++ i)
	{
		xmlText += div.dom.childNodes [i].nodeValue;
	}
	var xmlDoc = parseXMLDocument (Ext.String.trim (xmlText));
	if (xmlDoc == null)
	{
		alert ('Unable to parse XML');
		return;
	}
	if (xmlDoc.parseError && xmlDoc.parseError.reason && xmlDoc.parseError.reason != '')
	{
		alert ('XML parsing error ' + xmlDoc.parseError.reason + ' on line ' + xmlDoc.parseError.line + ' ' + xmlDoc.parseError.srcText);
		return;
	}

	var startupMsg = Ext.get ('bas_startup_msg');
	if (startupMsg)
		startupMsg.remove ();

	AwareApp.start (xmlDoc);
});

</script>

</body>
</html>

Now I import it into a Text attribute and it looks like this... Which is a bit of a blob. I want to edit it and then export it again but not looking like this.
If I use html type text attribute then URL_CONTENTS does not work.

Any ideas please?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html><head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ext-5.0.1/build/packages/ext-theme-neptune/build/resources/ext-theme-neptune-all.css" id="bas_cur_theme"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="aware_ext/resources/css/aware.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="aware_ext/ext/css/ItemSelector.css"></head> <body> <script type="text/javascript" src="ext-5.0.1/build/ext-all.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="aware_ext/aware.js?V2023"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> Ext.onReady(function(){ // find the DIV with XML node var div = Ext.get ('main_screen'); if (div == null) return; var xmlText = ""; for (var i = 0; i < div.dom.childNodes.length; ++ i) { xmlText += div.dom.childNodes .nodeValue; } var xmlDoc = parseXMLDocument (Ext.String.trim (xmlText)); if (xmlDoc == null) { alert ('Unable to parse XML'); return; } if (xmlDoc.parseError && xmlDoc.parseError.reason && xmlDoc.parseError.reason != '') { alert ('XML parsing error ' + xmlDoc.parseError.reason + ' on line ' + xmlDoc.parseError.line + ' ' + xmlDoc.parseError.srcText); return; } var startupMsg = Ext.get ('bas_startup_msg'); if (startupMsg) startupMsg.remove (); AwareApp.start (xmlDoc); }); </script> </body> </html>

hpl123

Mark,
Yes I see your problem, don´t know how to workaround that and don´t think it´s possible getting Aware to keep the original formatting of the document.

RentProperty

Hi, I have a custom function that might work for you (Simply gets the text from a file and returns it ). Send me a pm with your email address and then I'll send you the plugin if you want to try it.

Cheers
Werner