How to shorten the display of a text field?
I have a comments field that is long enough to really mess up the table view, so I want it to only display the first 20 words unless you click into it. How can I do that?
I tried to do use this ...
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MarkShnier__You
Qrew Legend
Qrew LegendYou would need to have a separate abbreviated field to use on reports. if you want to get fancier there is syntax to have a 'more' link appear to allow drilling into the record to see the full record. There is also syntax possible to allow hover text to see the full note
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- Hi Mark,
What I need is to shorten the comment display on the table view. So that it doesn't make the record/row it is on so long. I want the record height to be uniform and the comments section is preventing that right now.
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Meagan McOlin
------------------------------ - Mark, what is the hover syntax? Or is that something complicated enough we need to take it offline and consult?
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Mike Tamoush
------------------------------- Hover syntax is deeper knowledge than I have. :) But I would love to learn.
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Meagan McOlin
------------------------------- MarkShnier__YouTry this. The left 20 character should be a Clickable Hyperlink to view the record with "hover text" to see the whole text field.
var text Words = Left([Appt. Comments],20);
var text URL = URLRoot() & "db/" & dbid() & "?a=dr&rid=" & [Record ID#];
var text Hyperlink = "<a href=" & $URL & ">" & $Words & "</a>";
// then define the hover text
// Note!!, the hover text must be enclosed in a single ' character as the first space will stop the text.
// no html allowed in the hover text
// Use \n for line feed
var text HoverWords =
"'"
& [Appt. Comments]
& "'";
// this below will always be the same
"<div>" & "<span title=" & $HoverWords & ">" & $Hyperlink & "</b></span>" & "<div>"
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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