Custom Textbox - Text Formatting

[Brandon (Brandon Holloway)]

Hi,
Has anyone run into an issue where you have a custom textbox (multi-line) and the text you bring in comes in without any formatting. The situation I have is that I am pulling text from one table into another but the carriage returns are completely ignored and it appears to be one long run on sentence.

Example: Original Field (correct formatting)

Example: Same text but being pulled into another screen

[ckrusen (Calvin Krusen)]

It’s probably a line end difference.
CR vs LF vs CRLF

Experiment with substituting the line ends in the source. To know what what the multi-line text box wants, manually type into it (adding a few line breaks), then copy all the contents and view the clipboard with a clipboard viewer.

See:

New line characters for Multi-line data (CR, LF, or Both)

Kind of related to my earlier post, but with a broader scope. Is there a preference for characters used for multi-line data? CR(0x0D, “\r”), LF(0x0A, “\n”), CRLF(0x0D0x0a, “\r\n”), or LFCR(0x0A0x0D, “\n\r”) And does this vary with context? DB data(differ for Progress or SQL?), UI display (differ for textbox or grid?), SSRS Reports, Crystal Reports, Matching in BAQ’s, etc… My text editor has the ability to select the line endings and the options are: [image]

[ckrusen (Calvin Krusen)]

And an even better topic

Multi-line data in dashboard custom field of type textbox (CRLF vs LF)

How did the text (with a line break) get in that field? Was it manually typed in, or created elsewhere? I I think I may have started a thread on this myself

[Brandon (Brandon Holloway)]

Thanks for the suggestions! I check these out and see if I can get this to work for me.