Hi, does anyone know if reference model can support data capture and retrieval via a Rich text editor in the frontend? Or does anyone have experience of this? A lot of EPRs using proprietary data models will capture progress notes using a Rich text editor.

In terms of persisting the text from the Rich Text Editor, if you can render it as plain text with markup, then it can be persisted the same way as the text from any Entry would be persisted. It’s just text. Perhaps converting the RTF to MarkDown (trivial, lots of libraries can do this) would be a …

Thanks Marcus, these are great resources… will pass this back into some of our developers for comment

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borut.jures (Borut Jures) 21 August 2026 08:26 4

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