RS00506: CARRIAGE RETURN CHARACTERS IN RULE DOCUMENTATION ARE SKIPPED IN THE GENERATED HTML REPORTS

WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server V7.1.1.3 Fix Pack

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Documentation in a rule artifact with newline does not appear
  formatted in the html report generated in RTS
  

Local fix

• Use html formatting such as <br/> in the documention of the
  rules.
  or
  Customize the report according to the documentation and
  open the BIRT report in Rule Studio
  select the data set Rule Artifacts in the Outline
  In the script tab select the script "fetch"
  in this script replace
  
  row["RuleDescription"] = brlRule.getDocumentation();
  with
  row["ruleDescription"] = brlRule.getDocumentation() == null ?
  null: brlRule.getDocumentation().replace("/\r?\n|\r/g",
  "<br/>");
  
  Note that if the report contains the following it does not
  work:
  row["RuleDocumentation"] = brlRule.getDocumentation()
  use "RuleDescription" for the row and not 'RuleDocumentation"
  

Problem summary

• When generating an HTML report from the Analyze / Generate
  Project Report menu, carriage return characters are skipped from
  the documentation fields
  

Problem conclusion

• Modified the code to fix the issue
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WS ILOG RTS

• Fixed component ID

  5724Y0000

Applicable component levels

• R703 PSY

     UP

• R711 PSY

     UP