How do i get plain text output from ACTIONSEARCH (ActionTrackerPlugin)

I'm using the ActionTrackerPlugin in combination with the EasyTimelinePlugin to build dynamic overviews over running Projects. Therefore i need for example the due date (and every other field) as plain text. But even if i use an expression like

%<nop>ACTIONSEARCH{header="" orient="rows" footer="" format"$due"}%

i get some wired formated table. That is pretty useless data to compute on with. So i could use regexp's to get the data i want but, well... you can image the mess.

Pointing the CSS path to nothing only makes the returned stuff harder to parse.

So before i start fighting that war i thought i better ask if there is something i'm not getting right here. Is there a way to get plain text form actionsearch and if not what is the in your opinion best workaround?

Kind regards and have a nice weekend

-- EnrikGuenter - 10 Dec 2010

No One?

I found no way to get plain text from ACTIONSEACH so I just tried it with some functions ins CALC but CALC doesn't even seem to accept any string with html format.

I'd really like to avoid Regexping everything but if there is no way arround, can anyone tell me how to use the css-formated output of ACTIONSEARCH as a string and Regexp it?

-- EnrikGuenter - 13 Dec 2010

use the nophtml="on" option

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Feb 2011