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  • 1.  New Line or Carriage Return in Lookup Browse window?

    Posted Aug 30, 2011 04:55 PM
    I have a lookup that provides some additional descriptive information about the various choices in a separate column to the side of the main selections. I'd love to be able to force a new line in a couple of those descriptions. I can get the code to work nicely in a direct query using chr(10) or chr(13), but when viewed in the popup browse window, it seems to strip those characters out. Is there a method of getting that formatting all the way through to the end user?

    Thanks.


  • 2.  RE: New Line or Carriage Return in Lookup Browse window?
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    Posted Aug 30, 2011 11:32 PM
    Control chacters are dropped in portles when they are displayed. Have a look at

    Inserting new line characters into query results?
    20866361

    Hard Returns in NSQL dropped in Portlet
    2287664

    Martti K.


  • 3.  RE: New Line or Carriage Return in Lookup Browse window?

    Posted Aug 31, 2011 03:49 AM
    There are some more experiments in

    LONG STRINGS – NATURAL BREAK POINTS AND FORCED SPLITTING

    Martti K.


  • 4.  RE: New Line or Carriage Return in Lookup Browse window?

    Posted Aug 31, 2011 08:01 AM
    That's rather disheartening. It hadn't occurred to me that this could also be a portlet issue. So, I didn't think to search for that. I suppose I can understand the 'why' behind it, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating.

    Thanks for the info.