Unable to set HTML field of a SugarBean

Question

On my custom endpoint that does not require authentication I am trying to save an HTML string to a custom HTML field . Outputting the HTML string to a TextArea field shows that it is definitely working and the string is correct . In the screenshot below I have concatenated two versions of the HTML string - one with utf8_decode(); and the other (after the "

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", I thought TextArea would add newlines, ignore that please ) as the plain string as I was checking whether it was received as Unicode. I am trying to set the value of the HTML field in the same way as the TextArea, but it is not working. How am I supposed to do it?

Artis Plocins · Accepted Answer

It was more simple than that to use the TinyMCE field type. It is enough to only specify the type of the field and the corresponding database data type . It takes a bit more effort to specify TinyMCE settings, but there is some documentation to help with that in the developer guide here . $dictionary [ 'Case_Replies' ] = array ( 'table' = > 'case_replies' , 'audited' = > true , 'activity_enabled' = > false , 'duplicate_merge' = > true , 'fields' = > array ( 'message' = > array ( 'required' = > false , 'name' = > 'message' , 'vname' = > 'LBL_MESSAGE' , 'type' = > 'htmleditable_tinymce' , // Specify the field type to be TinyMCE 'dbType' = > 'text' , // This is data type of the field value in the database to save the HTML/UTF-8 markup 'massupdate' = > false , 'default' = > '' , 'no_default' = > false , 'comments' = > 'TinyMCE editor for displaying HTML reply messages' , 'help' = > 'Case reply message' , 'importable' = > 'true' , 'duplicate_merge' = > 'enabled' , 'duplicate_merge_dom_value' = > '1' , 'audited' = > false , 'reportable' = > true , 'unified_search' = > true , 'merge_filter' = > 'disabled' , 'full_text_search' = > array ( 'enabled' = > true , 'boost' = > '1' , 'searchable' = > true , ) , 'calculated' = > false , 'size' = > '20' , 'studio' = > 'visible' , 'rows' = > '20' , 'cols' = > '20' , ) , ) ;