No, nothing will change for the existing saved values, in existing content items, for that particular property, when you switch property editors. (slight caveat, as long as the property editor 'saves' the value in the same field in the database, which for RTE/Text Area should be the case)
Next time you load a content item based on that document type, the value will be retrieved from the database and displayed ready for editing...so you will see probably see some html characters from the RTE, in your text area...but the text will still be intact.
Change Property Editor
If I change a property editor on one of my doctypes from RTF to Textarea, will I lose all of the data previously input for that attribute?
Hi bh
No, nothing will change for the existing saved values, in existing content items, for that particular property, when you switch property editors. (slight caveat, as long as the property editor 'saves' the value in the same field in the database, which for RTE/Text Area should be the case)
Next time you load a content item based on that document type, the value will be retrieved from the database and displayed ready for editing...so you will see probably see some html characters from the RTE, in your text area...but the text will still be intact.
regards
marc
Many thanks @MarcGoodson you were exactly correct.
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