var text - Placement/Efficiency
- The Comments field is for text entry only, appearing on forms, but is not displayed in report view, for the purpose of concise formatting.
- The Hover field does appear on reports: it shows a hyperlink that upon mouse-over, will reveal the comments in a popup bubble. I have accomplished this so far with the following in the Hover field:
"<div style=\"width:10px;\"> "& Left(Right([Comments],"["),0) &"</div>"&
"<a href='"&Dbid()&"?a=dr&rid="&[Record ID#]&"' title='"&[Comments]&"' target\n=\"_blank\" \"> Comments</div></a>"
However, due to an html-related limitation as I understand it, the comment shown upon hover is cutoff at the first appearance of an apostrophe (or single quotation). For example:
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Comment says: |
Hover only displays: |
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Documents to be sent to buyer's Florida address |
Documents to be sent to buyer |
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Documents rec'd from seller 1 but not seller 2 |
Documents rec |
One suggestion I found to resolve this was to use the SearchAndReplace function to replace the apostrophes with a character that html will allow:
var text apost = SearchAndReplace([Comments],"'","");
$apost
To be quite frank, I had no idea where to enter this…so I created another field, titled "Comment Transponder" (Formula – Rich Text). It does not appear on reports or forms, and serves only as a relay to remove the single apostrophes so that the apostrophe-less text can then be shown in full upon hover.
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Comment says: |
Comment Transponder Field says: |
Hover now shows: |
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Documents to be sent to buyer's Florida address |
Documents to be sent to buyers Florida address |
Documents to be sent to buyers Florida address |
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Documents rec'd from seller 1 but not seller 2 |
Documents recd from seller 1 but not seller 2 |
Documents recd from seller 1 but not seller 2 |
Is there a more efficient way to do this (that would eliminate the need for the Comment Transponder field)?
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