I'm not aware of any published documentation on how to use the BMC supplied plugins.  In many cases you can probably work it out by looking at the example workflow that ITSM uses to call the plugins - at least for the less complicated ones.

For example, the one above removes HTML tags from a string and returns the plain text I believe.So you would call the plugin and provide the field that name that contains your HTML and it will send back the plain text as value 1 for you to set into another field.

Mark

I suspect the issue is that BMC don't publish the details as the plugins are not intended for use outside of their out of the box use cases.  Of course many of the plugins would have uses for custom applications but, by making the details public, it would limit the scope for changes which may break functionality and open up the "who supports them" question.

If there's enough demand perhaps a crowd sourced set of usage details could be created?

Mark

And the further problem is that most of these plugins come with the ITSM Suite....so, if they were to be used by custom applications, how would the developer of said custom application get their hands on the plugin

That was my thinking too.

What is the difference between the HTML2TEXT plugin and the STRIPHTML function (I believe added in ARS 8)?