Remove line breaks in VI Export

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Hello all,

SAGE 100 Could Advanced 2020 (V6.20.1.0)

I have a VI (Visual  Integrator) export job that pulls fields from CI_Items out of SAGE and into a .CSV file. I use Task Manager to automate this export and then another software reads the .CSV files. It is great and I don't have to do anything for the data to be updated.

I do have a problem. though. When I export the "CI_ExtendedDescription" - ExtendedDescriptionText field some of the data has returns in it and these are handled as cell breaks in the resulting .CSV file. It is about 6,000 lines and may users enter data so I would rather do the clean up on the export than try to make sure all users enter data without carriage returns.

I have read about making the Operation Calculated in the Export Field Properties and using some of the Functions and Operators to write function (right term???) to remove the carriage breaks and line breaks. It does seem to be working for me. I have read up on ProvideX to try and see if I can figure out what I am doing wrong but I have not had any luck as of yet. When I use the formula below all it does is make the cells in the column (other than the header) blank. But every other field exports fine.

Any ideas? 

SUB(CI_ExtendedDescription.ExtendedDescriptionText$, $0D0A$, "TEST")

Thanks in advance!

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  • +1
    verified answer

    You appear to be trying to replace the carriage return + line feed at the same time, it could be that you only have a line feed or carriage return in the data.  So try replacing them separately.  This will show you what was actually stored.

    SUB(SUB(CI_ExtendedDescription.ExtendedDescriptionText$, $0D$, "~CR~"), $0A$, "~LF~")

  • 0 in reply to David Speck

    Awesome. Good thinking on the nesting. Thank you for that David. I just plugged it in and got an "Error 20 in program VIWXOY at line 0085" message. I removed the tilde symbols and tried it again. It exported everything but the data below the Extended Description column again.

    SUB(SUB(CI_ExtendedDescription.ExtendedDescriptionText$, $0D$, "CR"), $0A$, "LF")

  • +1 in reply to BG50
    verified answer

    The temp field's operation should be set to Assign, not Calculated.

  • 0 in reply to David Speck

    David - Thank you again! That did the trick. I had to change Operation to Calculate, enter the expression and then change it back to Align.

    Running that expression did not seem to do the trick though. But I think that part of the challenge is solved.

    I will share it just in case anyone has seen this before. My data has hidden characters - latin small s - ASCII 00DF. You can see it here. At least this is what I think it is.

    I try to strip it out with an expression but it is still there. You don't see it in MS Word Pad but the main problem is that it shows up in Excel like this. It should all be on one row.

    I have an open case with SAGE and they too are stumped for the time being.

    Thanks for everyone's help!

  • 0 in reply to BG50

    Try adding a temp field with the calculation I gave above but make sure its operation is set to Assign, then remove the extended description text field.

    DFDM displays non-standard characters as the Beta symbol but that isn't actually the character stored in the database.

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