Text Editors
Some pages in PTC FlexPLM include text editors. These pages include email, documents, and image pages.
The following HTML formatting and elements are allowed in text editors:
• Tables
• Lists
• Hyperlinks
• Horizontal rules (lines)
• Bold, italic, strikethrough, and underlined text
• Superscripts and subscripts
• Certain text character sets (Times New Roman, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Tahoma, and Courier New)
• Text size control
• Text color control
• Text alignment control including certain style formats such as Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Heading 5, Heading 6, Normal, and Normal (DIV)
HTML provides alternative ways of accomplishing the different elements and formatting features, but PTC FlexPLM only accepts a single method. For example, the <strong> tag is supported but the <b> tag is not.
If you create your rich text within the editor window using the editor controls, your text meets the formatting criteria for PTC FlexPLM. If you paste text from another window or application (such as Microsoft Word), the text might not appear as it did in the source window or application. You might need to edit the text within PTC FlexPLM to achieve acceptable formatting.
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Opening a .docx file in Word 2003 and pasting the contents to the PTC FlexPLM editor is not recommended.
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Images are not allowed, except when importing the text for a requirement or specification description from Microsoft Word. In that case, the image files are added as secondary content items to the requirement or specification.
You cannot enter HTML markup into your rich text by hand. For example, if you enter <bold>bold text</bold> into the editor, the system displays it as <bold>bold text</bold> after the object is persisted and not as text with bold formatting.
