"Autosize height" not wrapping lengthy data to next page

[unknown]

I have an Infomaker Report where a text field is being
pulled into the "Details" section. In the <field> ->
Properties, on the General TAB, "Autosize Height" is checked
on.


Usually, this field gets a short length of data and may
simply be a numerical value or a one word answer. The data
displays OK configured this way unless someone enters a
large block text as data (sometimes, but rarely, up to 4000
characters). In this case, about 20 lines of the text will
appear in the report, but the remainder of the text is
truncated and doesn't wrap into the next page of the report.
Additionally, when it truncates it also chops the last
line of words in half such that you can't even read what the
last line says.

Any advice or tricks on how to make the details section of
the report properly display these (occasional) long winded
results and make them properly wrap into the next page if
necessary?

[Terry Dykstra [TeamSybase]]

Basically you're out of luck here. PB/IM simply don't handle long text
spilling over to a second page.
You could try using 2 computed fields (mid(longtextfield,1,2000) and
mid(longtextfield,2001), but then you will most likely run into a word being
split in half.

Terry Dykstra [TeamSybase]

Post by unknown
I have an Infomaker Report where a text field is being
pulled into the "Details" section. In the <field> ->
Properties, on the General TAB, "Autosize Height" is checked
on.
Usually, this field gets a short length of data and may
simply be a numerical value or a one word answer. The data
displays OK configured this way unless someone enters a
large block text as data (sometimes, but rarely, up to 4000
characters). In this case, about 20 lines of the text will
appear in the report, but the remainder of the text is
truncated and doesn't wrap into the next page of the report.
Additionally, when it truncates it also chops the last
line of words in half such that you can't even read what the
last line says.
Any advice or tricks on how to make the details section of
the report properly display these (occasional) long winded
results and make them properly wrap into the next page if
necessary?

[Bryan Gardner]

Brainstorming, but just because I have run into this as well. and I am not
wizard enough to engineer the statement,

could one be written to search for the first 'space' below 2000? other
than if char_2000 = " ", if not does char_1999 = " ", etc. and then use that
number to be the left and midstr statements value.

or could a statement/computed field be written to parse out paragraphs?
have a computed field that equates to paragraph 1, another for two and so
on? Then each paragraph can come from one column but be presented as 10+
computed fields?





"Terry Dykstra [TeamSybase]" <***@forestoil.ca> wrote in message news:497242f8$***@forums-1-dub...
Basically you're out of luck here. PB/IM simply don't handle long text
spilling over to a second page.
You could try using 2 computed fields (mid(longtextfield,1,2000) and
mid(longtextfield,2001), but then you will most likely run into a word being
split in half.

Terry Dykstra [TeamSybase]

Post by unknown
I have an Infomaker Report where a text field is being
pulled into the "Details" section. In the <field> ->
Properties, on the General TAB, "Autosize Height" is checked
on.
Usually, this field gets a short length of data and may
simply be a numerical value or a one word answer. The data
displays OK configured this way unless someone enters a
large block text as data (sometimes, but rarely, up to 4000
characters). In this case, about 20 lines of the text will
appear in the report, but the remainder of the text is
truncated and doesn't wrap into the next page of the report.
Additionally, when it truncates it also chops the last
line of words in half such that you can't even read what the
last line says.
Any advice or tricks on how to make the details section of
the report properly display these (occasional) long winded
results and make them properly wrap into the next page if
necessary?