copy on a group loses the htmltext of fields

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Sep 13 20:47:11 EDT 2013


A field with shared text will not keep its text when it is copied or placed on another card, presumably because each card has its own text.  A field without shared text will carry its text with it.  

"Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>I ran into this before about a year ago . . .
>
>I pull the html text from a database into thatText, and
>
>  set the htmlText of fld goo to thatText
>
>Then,
>
>  copy grp gunk to cd 1 of stack anotherStack
>
>
>I get fld goo in the new group on the new card, but it's text is gone.
>
>In the past, I solved this by pasting text into the field, and got
>fields that would survive the copy.  That doesn't seem to be an option
>this time, though.
>
>The htmlText got into the database by my copying from a pdf file and
>pasting into the field by hand, then saving the htmlText of the field
>to a database.

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