Hi Stefan,
no problem: if I just strip all newlines from the $text field (in HTML you use <br> anyway, the newline has no function apart from whitespace), and my multiline attribute is fine to go.
I do not intend to make the attribute editable: it is just used for display. Because that allows me to create the attribute either from free text or from combining other fields - depending on conditional attributes.
As a special feature you could strip all newlines beforehand, when providing the $text for subst statements.
Cheers, Andreas
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Sure, attributes can be shown multi-line, but they cannot be stored in the elog internal database. The database is a very old design and only allows for single line attributes. Just look at a YYMMDDa.log file and you will see that. I would have to change the database format to somethign more advanced like XML, but that would take me a couple of weeks or months.
Soooorrryy! ;-)
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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While the input widget of text attributes is a single line, they can easily be multi-line in the display - when you use HTML at least.
And of course the user can parse the text field and generate a single line, if he wants to.
If you leave it to me, I'll create wonderful applications to that feature :-)
Please? ;-)
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$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
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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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