Using RTE enabled fields in BI Publisher with PeopleTools 8.52

In PeopleTools 8.50 adding a Rich Text Editor to Long fields was introduced. With this RTE users are able to actually format text like you would do in for example Microsoft Word. This was a great feature for online entry and presentation in PeopleSoft. Unfortunately this does have a downside. The text that is entered and formatted using RTE gets stored in the database as HTML. This means that when you are using PSQuery to query the data, the data is presented as plain text with the HTML tags and therefor also not usable in any BI Publisher reporting.

With PeopleTools 8.52 a new tempate is introduced that solves this issue and renders the HTML tags in the Long field to the actual formatting the same way as presented in online PeopleSoft.

I’m Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld. Join Me.

I am proud and honored to announce that I will be speaking at Oracle Open World, among many more community spreakers. To see the full list of spreakers and subjects, please use the following link.

I will be giving a presentation on Five Reasons to Upgrade to PeopleTools 8.52:

• Feature Packs


• BI Publisher Enhancements


• Secure Enterprise Search


• Dashboards


• InterWindow Communication

Time and speaking ground:

• Wednesday, Oct 3rd


• 3:30 PM 


• Moscone West 3011

You can also follow me on twitter @hakanbiroglu, where I will try to give a live report on the Oracle Open World experience.

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Hope to see you there.