Text Cube (Rich Text format) rendering in data view - to include the formatting in the display
Issue Description:
There is a text cube where the customer enters comments during the planning cycle and while entering the comments their requirement is to also format those comments like highlight some text in Bold, underline etc. So for now this is achieved by using the RTF type of cube. But then the issue with the RTF text cube is that it does not display the text as is in the data view, but the user would have to double click on the cell and then it opens a window displaying the “Rich Text Data entry” data. The customer expects the comments to be displayed as is with the formatting without having to click and opening another window, so that it is convenient for people to review the comments and view the highlighted comments if any directly.
I have used 3 different type of objects (Data view, Labal and Flexgrid) to display the content of the text cube (with Rich Text formatting) and observed the following
- Data view object does not display the content as is, but has an icon in the cell which we need to click to view the formatted Rich text content.
- Label Object displays the content as is (which is what the customer expects to see in the Data view as well)
- Flex Grid object – displays the content but includes the HTML formatting tags with the text content.
If you would notice the Label Object Display of the RTF sub group cube (circled in green) is what the customer is expecting to see also in the Data view object cell – is this something that can be brought about as a change in the product to the Data View object? If this is made possible then it would avoid the customer having to click on the icon within the data view cell to view the Rich Text formatted data in another popup window, but see the formatted content as is in the cell.