Howto encode newline characters in strings used as property values in a configuration block?

[Ronald Brill]

I m using the Spotfire WebPlayer API and i like to set a document property (of type string) to a value.

This works fine using a configuration block as parameter for the createApplication() API.

Something like this: myDocumentProperty="ab c";

But this fails if the string contains a newline.

Setting the same property using the doc.setDocumentProperty(propName, value); javascript works fine with strings containing newline characters.

What is the correct way to encode newlines for strings in the configuration block?

[Fredrik Rosell]

Hello,

That is a known issue - using multi-line in configuration blocks simply does not work (I did a quick test in the latest TIBCO Spotfire 12.0 version to confirm, and it did fail). For increased visibility, I recommend that you open a support case about this in the Support Portal - https://support.tibco.com.

[Ronald Brill]

Thanks @Fredrik Rosell​ for the clarification.