Remove line break characters from VMCAS essays
- Elizabeth Storrs
Slate Instance | TUV |
Requestor/Reporter | Maddy Yardumian |
Date | 5/17/2024 |
Status | PENDING |
Bug Description | ‘/n’ instead of line breaks in VMCAS paragraph text that comes through the API |
Issue Description
Paragraph data that comes through in the API. You can see the \n\n for line breaks
Any paragraph fields could have these weird line breaks.
Personal Statement
Essay
Three month gap
Additional Information
Disciplinary Explanations
Candidacy Changes
Why Tufts
Troubleshooting/Research
For the 2024 cycle, I did an import after data freeze, which caught everything except “Why Tufts”. This was an export of all these fields in Slate, replacing the “/n” line break characters with spaces, and uploading it back into Slate so the readers were not fighting with the extra characters.
I did make a source format from that file: https://vet.admissions.tufts.edu/manage/import/format?id=86e9c042-80ad-4d9d-8820-f04e32cf9305
Testing with 2023 data, it comes over just fine in a WedAdmit export.
Can I build this to just happen as a scheduled SFTP and me not have to do anything?
Resolution Steps