Field types
Formatted text
A text field with highlighting: bold, italic, lists, paragraphs, links. For condition descriptions, provenance details and longer texts with a structure.
Input
Click into the field and write. The field has no fixed toolbar: as soon as you select text, a bar appears above the selection with undo, headings, link, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript, alignment, lists, Text color and Highlight. Only what can be transferred cleanly into a Word document is offered.
The value is only saved when you leave the field. Simply clicking into it does not count as a change.
If the text needs no highlighting, a text field is easier to handle, especially in the export.
What is stored
The text with its markup as HTML, for example <p>Guter Zustand, <em>Rahmen bestoßen</em></p>. You
notice this when searching:
| Action | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Full-text search and filter | Search in the text including the markup. Rahmen finds <em>Rahmen bestoßen</em>, Zustand, Rahmen does not, because there is markup in between |
| Sorting | Not useful, because every value starts with markup |
| Grouping | Not useful |
| Bulk edit | All text tools. Take care: Search and replace also hits the markup |
Display and export
| Formatting | Preset in | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Raw value | Export | The text with markup |
| Text only | Gallery, table, kanban | The text without markup, paragraphs as line breaks |
So in the Excel export, without a chosen formatting, the markup is in the cell as well. See Excel export .
In Word templates, the HTML command transfers the highlighting into the document. A simple
placeholder outputs the markup literally. See Template syntax .
Setup
The field type has no parameters. See Configuring formatted text .