[Product-Developers] hidden description in event object

[deesto]

Hi Maurits,

On Mar 13, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Maurits van Rees-3 (via Nabble) wrote:
> >> An Archetypes field also has a raw version. In this case it  
> should be
> >> self.getRawDescription().  See if that gives you what you want.
> >
> > Currently I pull this field into the object thusly:
> >      ...
> >      copied_fields['description'],
> >      ...
> >
> > How/where would I use getRawDescription() to pull in the raw version
> > into the object?  or is this not possible with copied fields?
>
> In a template you would use context/Description to get the normal
> description.  If you use context/getRawDescription you get the raw
> description.
>
> It may or may not make a difference with the description field.  But
> at least when you have a rich text field called 'body' and you have
> restructured text as the input, and html as output, then getRawBody
> will get you the literal raw restructured text that is stored in the
> field and getBody will get you the html version.
>
> It may be worth a shot; if you don't get progress in 15 minutes, then
> forget this email. :-)

Well, it's been > 15 minutes now.

I'm using the default 'base_view' for this type.  Shouldn't that  
display the description field, if it exists?  I don't understand why  
it disappears after object creation.

Thanks,
~John

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