Newlines replaced by "\n" in Notes field

[marianneb]

There is a bug in the widget used in the notes form that causes carriage returns to be replaced by "\n".

To reproduce:

• Create a dataset and add a working note containing the following

  Hello!
  How are you?
  

• Save the note and then save and close the record.

• Edit same record again. View note - it will now look like this

  Hello!\nHow are you?
  

I have tested this on the current demo redbox install (1.6-RC01-SNAPSHOT). See http://demo.redboxresearchdata.com.au/redbox/default/detail/9cdb842db8449570159627376b225d17/ for a record where this has happened.

[ozej8y]

I have a fix for this issue.

At JCU we altered our description field to support many descriptions with a type and value. This is the only 'list' field in the framework that allows you to enter newlines '\n'.

In widgets2.js, the restore() processes each single instance field with this code.

                    t.val(data[v].replace(/\\n/g,"\n")).trigger("onDataChanged");

When processing all list fields the .replace(/\n/g, "\n") does not exist, so the '\n' is displayed on the screen instead of the newline character.

So here is my fix:

                    input.val(data[v].replace(/\\n/g,"\n")).trigger("onDataChanged");       line: 1634

This is based on the 1.6.1 release.