Re: Report-Elasticity Question

>I am trying to display a parameter in the header page of a report. The
>parameter information can be a delimited list. I am looking to have a
>text field that displays this information to expand to accordate the
>length of the information in the parameter. The parameter width is 1024
>to be able to accept any length of string.
>
>I created a text field and set the width to 150. I set Horizontal
>Elasticity to fixed and the Vertical Elasticity to variable. It cuts
>off the right end of the line.
>Example: I put in : Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid
>of their party. The red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
> What displays is:
>Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. The
>red--the rest of this line got cut off instead of wraping.
>brown dog.--this is what was on the second line.
> Does anybody know Why??? I have tried everything I can think of,
>There must be some combination I am not trying.
>Thanks
>Diane Perkins
>perkinsdt_at_navair.navy.mil
>

I don't recall if there is an option to say a field is multiline; check for that. Otherwise, check that the frame(s) the item is in also has its vertical elasticity set to variable.

Dan Hekimian-Williams Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 04:17:13 CEST