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icon5.gif   Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Mar 22 14:56:12 2021 
    icon2.gif   Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Mar 22 15:10:12 2021 
       icon2.gif   Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Mar 22 19:59:13 2021 
          icon2.gif   Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Mar 24 10:06:26 2021 
             icon3.gif   Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Mar 24 22:09:56 2021 
                icon3.gif   Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Jun 14 18:06:06 2021 
    icon2.gif   Re: Request: make $text available for "subst", posted by Sebastian Schenk on Tue Mar 23 13:42:27 2021 
Message ID: 69320     Entry time: Mon Mar 22 19:59:13 2021     In reply to: 69319     Reply to this: 69324
Icon: Reply  Author: Andreas Luedeke  Author Email: andreas.luedeke@psi.ch 
Category: Request  OS: Linux | All  ELOG Version: V3.1.4 
Subject: Re: Request: make $text available for "subst" 

While the input widget of text attributes is a single line, they can easily be multi-line in the display - when you use HTML at least.
And of course the user can parse the text field and generate a single line, if he wants to.
If you leave it to me, I'll create wonderful applications to that feature :-)

Please? ;-)

Stefan Ritt wrote:

$text is the full body text and can go over many lines. Since attributes are restricted to single lines, it's not possible to substitute them with the body text.

Stefan

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Hi Stefan,

I've just tried to read the $text with subst into another field and failed.
It looks like $text is only available for the execution of shell scripts in the "execute new|edit|delete = <script>" command.

Could that be added? I can think of a multitude of applications:

  • In my case I want to fill an attribute X either with free text or generated from other fields. The list view will show just X and not how it was generated.
  • I could fill an attribute automatically with the character length of the text.
  • I could parse the text in a shell script and set other attributes according to the content.

Thank you for considering it.

Cheers, Andreas

 

 

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