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How do you put a newline or CR in a text calculation?

By: Michele Capurso | Asked: 03/18/2023
Forums › Category: General questions › How do you put a newline or CR in a text calculation?
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Michele Capurso asked 2 years ago

Hi. I need to set up a rather long text calculation field to recap a bunch of choices made in some previous fields. So:

  1. I created a paragraph filed
  2. I am using the Advanced Default Value (Text Calculation) to populate the field from other fields' content.

Things work pretty well, expect I cannot place newlines between fields code. I have tried things like:

[221]<p>[222]</p>
[221]<br>[222]

[221]\n[222]

[221]\\n[222]

 

Nothing works so far. I even created another paragraph field and placed a newline there, but unless you put some other text content the CR alone gets stripped away.... Any help would be much appreciated!

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Michele Capurso answered 2 years ago

Hi and thank you for the idea. Not really what I wanted to achieve, but it could be a solution. I am going to check it right now. 

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Victor Font Staff answered 2 years ago

Another technique to try is to create your own shortcode to produce the output you want. With a shortcode, you could append the PHP_EOL character between the lines where you want the breaks.

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