Is there a way in ICN to format certain attributes of a FN CE document?

In FN CE, all values string are stored without formatting (we get them this way). However, the end-user would like to see those values with the formatting.

Take for example a credit card number - just as an example so that I can explain, what we are looking for. PS: We don't have credit card numbers stored. 

Entering or reading a credit card number without spaces is difficult for almost everyone. There are just to many digits. For searching, however, it much better to remove the spaces (has the user used 1 or 2 spaces .. or is there a special character). So one frequently stores the value "normalized" without any formatting.

However, for the users, it would be great to display in the ICN the values with formatting.

So is there any possibility either in FN CE or ICN to define a formatting or add custom code, which does this before the values are displayed anywhere in den ICN?

Hi Thomas Laes-Kushner, FileNet supports following data types https://www.ibm.com/docs/zh-tw/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=properties-overview. 
For your requirements, customization would be required as you need to format the data before display hence ICN customization via request response filter should be good to explore. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/content-navigator/3.0.x?topic=navigator-creating-plug-in-components

Example https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/validate-customer-data-when-saving-document-or-folder talk about format validation before persisting the data, similar approach can be obtained via format compliance before display post payload retrieval of the query result.

Few example How to create your first IBM Content Navigator Plugin Part1

and How to create your first IBM Content Navigator Plugin Part2

Github https://github.com/ibm-ecm/ibm-content-navigator-samples/tree/master/UserColumnSettingsPlugin

Thanks 

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Ankit Garg Architect
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