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Performance between Free Form Text and Rich Text
Silly question but is there a performance gain between using a Free Form Text field versus Rich Text field for tags?
<%=getCurrentAttribute('item','custitem_Free_Form_Text')%>
vs.
<%=getCurrentAttribute('item','custitem_Rich_Text')%>
Rich Text processes tags / html where Free Form Text does not. I would guess this is more work but the question is, if you have 10 fields to getCurrentAttribute, would Free Form Text be faster/better.
Being a lazy guy, if there is no difference, I would be inclined to create all fields which are used in a getCurrentAttribute as Rich Text. This way I can always add imbedded tags or html.
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