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  • 1.  Rich Text and Text fields mess with mobile formatting

    Posted 10-16-2020 14:37
    Edited by Michael Tamoush 10-16-2020 14:37
    Anyone find a trick to getting around the following QB mobile bug?

    When using a formula rich text field, or the 'text' option in forms (oddly, a normal formula text field is fine) on mobile, when in view mode any field below the text field is a disaster. The border lines are removed, report links dont show correctly, things are shifted. It's all kinds of a mess.

    So far, only tricks I have discovered are putting in a section break, or simply using a formula text field.

    I was wondering if anyone else has discovered any other tricks?

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    Mike Tamoush
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  • 2.  RE: Rich Text and Text fields mess with mobile formatting

    Posted 10-16-2020 14:42
    Edited by Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach) 10-16-2020 16:11
    Are you properly closing your HTML tags?  Regular Quick Base is completely forgiving of badly formatted HTML, but perhaps Mobile requires proper closing of tags

    like 

    "<font color=red" & [my field here] & "</font color>"

    Most of us get lazy and don't bother closing the tag like I have done above and just do like this below.

    "<font color=red" & [my field here] 

    That works fine in regular Quick Base desktop but in mobile apparently not. 


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    Mark Shnier (YQC)
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    Your Quick Base Coach
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  • 3.  RE: Rich Text and Text fields mess with mobile formatting

    Posted 10-16-2020 15:35
    Edited by Michael Tamoush 10-16-2020 15:36
    GENIUS. Oh man I've been annoyed with that for so long, and closing the tag is all it took!

    Also, turns out I just needed to close my bold and italics </b></i>. I didnt even close my color or size and it worked just fine.

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    Mike Tamoush
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