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I’ve built a SAEF where my client can upload delivery info for his haulage business. When I try to preview an entry, any custom fields between {preview} tags are wrapped in tags.
The following code:

{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="growers" return="growers/index" preview="growers/brown"}
{preview}
Please check the following information is correct before hitting submit.
<h2>{title}</h2>

<p><ul><br />
<li>Delivery Note:{del_note}</li><br />
<li>Customer: {up_customer}</li><br />
<li>Delivery Reference: {up_del_ref}</li><br />
<li>Grower Reference: {up_grower_ref}</li><br />
<li>Product: {up_product}</li><br />
<li>Product Reference: {up_product_ref}</li><br />
<li>Quantity: {up_quantity}</li><br />
<li>Field /Store Reference: {up_fieldstore_ref}</li><br />
<li>Haulier: {up_haul}</li><br />
<li>Trailer Number: {up_trailer}</li><br />
</ul><br />
....<br />
{/preview}

renders as:

<ul>
<li>Del Note:1</li>
<li>Customer: 45</li>
<li>Delivery Reference: 1445APB</li>
<li>Grower Reference: GMRR5</li>
<li>Product: Carrots</li>
<li>Product Reference: EEWR45</li>
<li>Quantity: 2000kg</li>
<li>Field /Store Reference: HAM</li>
<li>Haulier: PPK</li>
<li>Trailer Number: AK528LP</li>
</ul>

Default text formatting on each custom field is set to ‘None’ in the Admin panel. If I try to output the same info inside {exp:weblog:entries} tags the info displays as it should; ie no tags within my <li>s. Has anyone had the same problem or am I just doing something I shouldn’t? I’m running 1.6, build 20070815.

Many Thanks

- Jamie

Jamie, you’re a build behind, but I don’t think that is what is causing your problem.

There is a workaround, you could use the Find and Replace Plugin to get rid the paragraph markings.

This is the first time I’ve seen someone use an unordered list to fill out the preview.

Thanks Sue, I’ll give the plugin a try. Since the weblog is basically a large order form, outputting the preview via a <ul> seemed the best choice given the data, but maybe I’ll rethink.

- J

I am having this same exact problem, but when I use the find and replace plug-in, it appears to parse before the {preview} tag spits out the text and code, thus doesn’t find the paragraph tags.  The weird thing is that I have the formatting for my custom field set as “none”, yet it still wraps it in tags.

Took a look at the code and preview should conform to the specified format.  What build/version are you running?  And can you paste the relevant bits of the preview tag pair?

Running build: 20080626 - Version 1.6.4

Here is my tag code:

{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="book" return="book/index" preview="book/preview"}
    {preview}
        <h1>{title}, {b_location}</h1>
        {b_body}
    {/preview}
<input type="image" src="{site_url}assets/back-saef.jpg" value="Back" >
{/exp:weblog:entry_form}

And her is what it spits out:

<form stuff>
<h1>Administrator, Atlanta, GA
</h1> 
Body stuff formatted correctly
<input type="image" src="http://boone60th.org/assets/back-saef.jpg" value="Back" >
</form>

I also should note, that even if I use {display_custom_fields} inside the {preview} tag pair, it still wraps them with the tags.

Odd- I’m not replicating.  Running 1.6.4

I checked my custom field formatting was set to ‘none’- just put in a title and one custom field.  Outputs:

<h1>Second test the preview</h1>

La la la.

No formating.  There was a space above this!

Preview code looked like:

{preview}
<h1>{title}</h1>

{display_custom_fields}

{/preview}

I’d swear I’ve actually run into this before, but it was on an old version.

Hm- you definitely have the default field formatting set to ‘none’?  And if you go ahead and enter via the form, when you go to edit, is the field still set to none?

Yep, the default formatting is set to ‘none’ and when I got to the newly submitted entry in Edit it is still set to ‘none’. 

To add to the weirdness, when I then publish the entry on a template, the custom field, under that entry, has no formatting.  It appears to only give formatting under the {preview} tag pair.  Outside of that it works, “just find and dandy, Thank you” as Forest Gump would say.

OK- do a reveal code on the form- looks to me like if field_fmt_x isn’t passed, it defaults to xhtml.

So- I look at my revealed code and see:

<input type="hidden" name="field_ft_13" value="none" />
<input type="hidden" name="field_ft_14" value="none" />
<input type="hidden" name="field_ft_33" value="xhtml" />
<input type="hidden" name="field_ft_62" value="none" />
<input type="hidden" name="field_ft_64" value="xhtml" />

It’s right up there at the beginning of the form.  Do a quick search on the form- are the fields coming back w/p tags given a value for field_ft_x?

That make sense?

Oh, I see.  Is this in my SAEF or somewhere else?  The only problem is that I want to pre-populate the special field names with some of the logged-in users info.  Here is my SAEF form.

<input type="text" name="title" value="{screen_name}" class="input" value="none" />
<input type="text" name="field_id_7" value="{location}" class="input" value="none" />
<textarea name="field_id_5" class="tinput"></textarea>

Looking at the source code on the Pulbish Form field_id_7, which I believe is the problematic field, has no value. 

<input  dir='ltr'  style='width:100%' type='text' name='field_id_7' id='field_id_7' value='' size='50' maxlength='128' class='input'  />

Is this what you mean?

The other custom field has value=“xhtml”

<input type='hidden' name='field_ft_5' value='xhtml' />

Hm- yep, that would be it.

Try this- go edit the field format- flip it to something else- apply to all.  Flip it back- apply to all.  Does it now show up w/a value in the form?

NOTE- if you don’t want all of them set to ‘none’- don’t do this! 😉

Yep, value is still blank.

I do want them all to be ‘none’.😖   That sounds funny.

I just found another instance of the input right below it.  Must have missed it before.  Its value is set to ‘none’.

<input type='hidden' name='field_ft_7' value='none' />

But it’s still not helping the formatting in the preview loop.

Just to make sure I’m clear- field_id_7 shows the p tags around it, even with that hidden field showing on the form?  Triple check- because if it’s just the fields not having the default ‘none’ showing, it’s an easy fix.  But if that’s not it, I’m going to have to poke a bit.