Suppressing/disabling markdown in calculation field

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Tillmann Heidelk

• October 25, 2017 19:06

Hi, I struggle with markdown in the calculations app.

I seek to reference strings from text or relationship fields which start with a number, e.g. 2. [some text] or 4. [some number]. When displaying them in a calculations field, markdown displays them as start of an enumeration. How can I disable/suppress markdown in the calculation field and show the actual string such that 2. [some text] stays 2. [some text] and is not converted to 1. [some text]?

Thank you for your help!

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Example:

* Text field input: 3. text
* Calculation field:
```
var a = @text
a
```
* Result:
1. text
* Desired result:
"3. text" (without the " ")

 

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  Adrien BLAISE

  • October 25, 2017 19:38
  • Edited

  Markdown will convert "[whatever number]. String" to start from one and increment. So

  4. Item 1
  9. Item 2
  5. Item 3

  will be converted to:

  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
  3. Item 3

  You may either change the separator to " - " (vs. period) within the source string, or you can try wrapping the whole thing within back ticks so that this is considered as code/preformatted.

  Like "`" + @Text + "`"

  Depending on the use case, you may want to try dynamic images (like: https://dabuttonfactory.com/) with a transparent background.

  (Or wait for a couple of hours, and RAINER will come up with a smarter solution...)

   

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  Adrien BLAISE

  • October 25, 2017 19:46
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  Or try:

  @Text.replace("."," - ")

  Maybe you can find something closer to a dot, that won't be renumbered by markdown.

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  Rainer Grabowski

  • October 26, 2017 07:52

  If you want to keep the dot:

  @text.replace(/(\d\.) /g,"$1 ")

   

   

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  Tillmann Heidelk

  • October 26, 2017 13:39

  Thank you for the quick help, very much appreciated!

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