We have been having a problem with syncing some text fields, which seems to have started sometime around the upgrade to 10.1, although it's taken a while to notice as it only happens when a particular piece of content is updated so that a new uSync export file is created.

Basically, we have some standard text fields in Umbraco, which contain data like this:

{{VariableName}}

It's part of a system we use for inserting dynamic variables into text fields, hence it looking like the Angular ones. But since 10.1, from what I can work out, it is being picked up as JSON (Umbraco's built in method for detecting JSON seems to just consider anything with curly braces around it as JSON), and altered on export, which then makes the output incorrect.

So for example, prior to 10.1, the output file contained this:

<pageBreadcrumbTitle>
      <Value><![CDATA[{{VariableName}}]]></Value>
</pageBreadcrumbTitle>

Now it contains this:

<pageBreadcrumbTitle>
  <Value><![CDATA["{{VariableName}}"]]></Value>
</pageBreadcrumbTitle>

(i.e quotes have been added around it)

So when the import happens, these quotes are added into the text field, making the synced version incorrect.

Is there any way to force it to be treated as a standard string and not JSON to avoid this? (unless I'm wrong and it isn't JSON that's the issue)

Thanks in advance :)