<rss version="2.0" xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Inflectra Customer Forums: Custom Properties not retaining any formatting after import/export (Thread)</title><description> It appears Custom Properties (Type = Text) does not retain any formatting when exporting into SpiraTest from Excel even after importing a test case initially into Excel and modifying some text.    Tried to use HTML tags to insert lines/paragraphs, etc, but whilst this works for Test Step Descriptions &amp; Expected Result fields, it does not work for Custom Properties.    Am I doing something wrong here or is this a feature that is likely to be introduced in a future release? </description><language>en-US</language><copyright>(C) Copyright 2006-2026 Inflectra Corporation.</copyright><managingEditor>support@inflectra.com</managingEditor><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Project_Management/</category><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Quality_Assurance/</category><generator>KronoDesk</generator><a10:contributor><a10:email>support@inflectra.com</a10:email></a10:contributor><a10:id>http://www.inflectra.com/kronodesk/forums/threads</a10:id><ttl>120</ttl><link>/Support/Forum/spiratest/issues-questions/285.aspx</link><item><guid isPermaLink="false">threadId=285</guid><author>Ramsey Abu-Jaber (the_abus@hotmail.com)</author><title>Custom Properties not retaining any formatting after import/export</title><description> It appears Custom Properties (Type = Text) does not retain any formatting when exporting into SpiraTest from Excel even after importing a test case initially into Excel and modifying some text.    Tried to use HTML tags to insert lines/paragraphs, etc, but whilst this works for Test Step Descriptions &amp; Expected Result fields, it does not work for Custom Properties.    Am I doing something wrong here or is this a feature that is likely to be introduced in a future release? </description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:47:18 -0400</pubDate><a10:updated>2012-06-26T17:43:23-04:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spiratest/issues-questions/285.aspx</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">messageId=553</guid><author>David J (adam.sandman+support@inflectra.com)</author><title>This is because custom text fields in Spira do not support formatting - they are plain text fields. </title><description>This is because custom text fields in Spira do not support formatting - they are plain text fields. In v4.0 we shall be adding additional custom property types, including rich text fields.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:43:23 -0400</pubDate><a10:updated>2012-06-26T17:43:23-04:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spiratest/issues-questions/285.aspx#reply553</link></item></channel></rss>