Losing newlines from Description field

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elesel
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Losing newlines from Description field

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When I enter multiple lines (with hard returns) into the Description field and then click Update Event, the event is stripped of any hard returns before it is saved. When I mouseover the new event in the Month view, the lines I had entered separately now run together, and when I edit the event again the hard returns are no longer present.

Is anyone aware of this issue? As a workaround, I can enter <br> tags in the Description field, which look correct on mouseover, but when a member opens the event they see them.

For example, this:

Topic: Love thy neighbor
Assignments: TBD

becomes this:

Topic: Love thy neighbor Assignments: TBD
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.

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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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Wow, I'm amazed that this issue has been around for so long. Thanks for pointing it out, Russell. I am a web developer and this wouldn't be that hard to fix, but I'm guessing that the developers have other priorities.
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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elesel wrote:but I'm guessing that the developers have other priorities.
Last time I talked to them it was something like two developers working on seven projects.
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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Wow. That's being stretched thin.
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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we're all busy hastening the work
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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There is another thread about this problem that was started February 11, 2012:
https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.ph ... lit=wxrwxr

Also there is a work-around you may be interest in as follows:
You can use the sequence <br> to input line breaks into event descriptions. For example the entry:
1. Jerry - Setup<br>
2. Jim - Salad<br>
3. Bill - Main Dish<br>
4. Joe - Desert<br>
5. Dick - Cleanup<br>

will show as:
1. Jerry - Setup
2. Jim - Salad
3. Bill - Main Dish
4. Joe - Desert
5. Dick - Cleanup
in the "mouse over" window in the calendar for the event in "Month" mode.

The <br> characters will still show in the "Edit Event Details" window but it is still much better that having it changed to:
1. Jerry - Setup 2. Jim - Salad 3. Bill - Main
Dish 4. Joe - Desert 5. Dick - Cleanup
.
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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Post by russellhltn »

This appears to be fixed in 2.7.
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Re: Losing newlines from Description field

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Post by wxrwxr »

Yes the version in use 11/24/2014 corrects the loss for newlines in the description field. Thank you. Thank you.
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