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Title: Multiple lines on a column in a browse?
Post by: Devan on May 23, 2013, 10:16:38 PM: In NT7, is it possible to show more than one line in a browse column?

For instance, I have a column in which I would like to show the Customer Name in bold, the underneath that, the category in italics. In the browse procedure, column property, I place in the 'Display' field:

'' & CUS:Name & ' ' & CUS:Category & ''

It shows me the customer name bolded, but not the second line.

I even have a graphic in column 1 which makes the row heights much taller than one line, but still no show.

What is the trick to achieving this?

Thanks,
Devan
Title: Re: Multiple lines on a column in a browse?
Post by: Bruce on May 24, 2013, 02:13:56 AM: Hi Devan,

first, you may want to clip the strings(like cus:name).
Actually, you want to "scrub" the data becuase if it contains an html char it'll break. For example, if the name was Ben & Jerry, your browse would die.

so you need something more like;
'' & p_web._jsok(CUS:Name) & ' ' & p_web._jsok(CUS:Category) & ''

the most likely reason for the Category being missing is if it's not included in the View. ie if it's a blank string, then you won't see anything.

Of course you need "allow xHtml" for the column turned on.
Title: Re: Multiple lines on a column in a browse?
Post by: ccordes on May 24, 2013, 02:48:20 PM: Devan,
Could be that the row isn't resizing. I think if you put all your html in a single field in the column it'll work, but you may have to change the row height.

chris