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Report Text Displaying Carriage Line text (<br />) instead of Generating New Line

BMeadNS
5 - Atom

I know I'm not the first one to ask about this, but I cannot get it to work. I am using summarize to concatenate several records using the <br /> method described in several forum discussions, but when I pass it through report text, my output displays the text instead of generating a new line. We run on 2019.4 so it might be an issue with our Alteryx environment but I've seen posts from both earlier and later versions confirming that the method produced the expected output, so I'm doubtful that that's the case. Using \n instead of <br /> at least doesn't leave the unwanted text in the report, but it also doesn't produce the new lines. The only thing I can think of is there being a hidden setting/configuration for report text that I'm missing. Any help is appreciated!

 

Discussion threads I've referenced

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Discussions/Keep-Newline-within-Report-Tex...

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Discussions/Adding-a-new-line-within-text-...

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Discussions/Adding-a-new-line-within-text-...

 

Current result

BMeadNS_0-1683207147656.png

 

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geraldo
13 - Pulsar

@BMeadNS

 

replace the <br> with \n in the summarize tool 

BMeadNS
5 - Atom

The lower branch in the sample workflow already has this and does not generate new lines

BMeadNS_0-1683212720498.png

 

geraldo
13 - Pulsar

@BMeadNS 

 


I tested it in the 2019 version, the <br/> and \n don't work.

I made a solution if you encounter this problem

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