display fields, tpl and formats

[WendyLG]

I am trying to format a value in a display field to be a clickable telephone number. it all seems to work fine the very first time this form is displayed.
But when a new model is loaded and the form redisplays all of my anchor tags and icons just disappear and the phone number is just displayed as a plain old number.

/*global Ext,Coda,U4*/

Ext.util.Format.url = function(value) {
    var url = U4.util.Path.encodeSegments(Coda.telephoneUrlFormat, {
        number: value.replace(/ /g,'')
    });
    
    var imagePath,
        iconTag,
        classTag;

    if(Ext.isEmpty(value)){
        return "";
    }
    else {
        imagePath = Coda.imagePath + 'icon/phone.png';
        iconTag = '<IMG SRC=\"'+ imagePath+'\">';
        classTag = 'class="'+Coda.baseCSSPrefix+'link-anchor"';
        return '<A href=\"' + url + '\" ' + classTag + '>'+iconTag + Ext.htmlEncode(value) + '</A>';
    }
};
/**
 * A display field which formats values using a Coda Type.
 */
Ext.define('Coda.form.field.LinkDisplay', {
    extend : 'Coda.form.field.Display',
    alias : 'widget.coda_linkfield',
    requires : ['Coda.web.Types'],

    fieldSubTpl: [
                  '<div id="{id}"',
                  '<tpl if="fieldStyle"> style="{fieldStyle}"</tpl>',
                  ' class="{fieldCls}">{value:url}</div>',
                  {
                      compiled: true,
                      disableFormats: false
                      
                  }
              ]

   
});

.

I have done some digging and it is this method from 'Ext.form.field.Display' that does the splatting.
Why isn't my tpl ever looked at again? (had a break point in the format method)

setRawValue: function(value) {
        var me = this,
            display;

        value = Ext.value(value, '');
        me.rawValue = value;
        if (me.rendered) {
            me.inputEl.dom.innerHTML = me.getDisplayValue(); <-- this line here

        }
        return value;
    },

[slinky2000]

It's funny, I'm looking at exactly the same problem today. I create a tpl for a display field and when the values are updated the tpl gets ignored.

{
    xtype: 'form',
    items:[{
        xtype: 'displayfield'
        fieldLabel: 'Date',
        tpl: new Ext.XTemplate('{timestamp:parseTimestampAndFormat}')    
    }]
}

form.setValues({"timestamp": 1326448100000})

I've my own custom util function parseTimestampAndFormat

[WendyLG]

I ended up overwriting getDisplayValue, and making that return my html.

[slinky2000]

Yea I ended up overwriting 'setRawValue' and making my own component xtype