I have read about using VBA to concatenate terms together using VbCrLf; I personally used Ctrl-Enter to create a second line in the caption field in the properties box.
But, after I do my ctrl-enter, it then only shows the first line of my multi-line caption in the datasheet view of my form.
becomes this...
This form is meant to recreate the functionality our owner is looking for from a current excel spreadsheet (the ability to sort on various columns), so I can't just use a report.
Please tell me I'm missing something obvious such as a caption height property value or something. The multiline caption will be very useful to help maintain appropriate column widths for the data.
Whilst you can display multiple lines of content within the datasheet view for a table by increasing the row height of each record, e.g.:
A more appropriate solution might be to use a text box on a form to display the data, where the height of the text box can be predefined in the design of the form, and scroll bars can be displayed:
There is no solution to adjusting column headers in the specific "datasheet" form that I was trying to use. It's a nice quick way that works for 95% of your uses. But, if you need more control (like me and others on the internet) the only solution is to create the form as a "Tabular" form in the form wizard. There are other descriptions of this type of form in Access (just to be confusing).
This is also described as a continuous form likely because that's the form property value toggle when you dive into the details.
It's more work but you have full control over the size, format, etc. of your column headers when creating/designing a tabular form.
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I have a Typo3 server. On that I created some different content elements with mask.
In this elements there are often repeating content, like texts or other stuff.
So the editors make a new element in the backend, there they can add a headline and as much text parts as they want.
Often it looks like this:
Thats good, the editor can see a "preview" of the textparts. In this example "Karriere,Partner...". This naming happens automatically.
My Problem is, some times there arent any titles. Its always "No title". As an editor its quite hard to find the right dropdown to edit some stuff, you mostly have to open all dropdowns and search for the right one.
Its look then like this:
In both elements there are some string inputs that are very good for the title.
So my question is, how is mask gonna choose the title? Its not the first string input.
And secondly, can I tell Mask that they have to choose input field XYZ as title?
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Yes, you can tell Mask which field to use as a title for inline elements (like repeating contents). When you're setting up a new Mask element, right below the "Label" field of the repeated inline element, there is a field "Field that should be used as label for inline element (starting with tx_mask_)". This will be used as the title that is displayed in the backend. In the placeholder of that field, it explicitly says that "If empty, first field is used".
So, if your inline element has a field "my_awesome_header" which you would like to use as the title in the backend, set the above to "tx_mask_my_awesome_header".
I am not certain as to why it does not display anything in your second example. It might be that either the first input field is not a string, or the first input field is a string but it is empty.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you need further clarification.
Edit: Since that question came up, it should be possible to set a static default title to the containing Mask element using mod.wizards.newContentElement.wizardItems.mask.elements.[name of the mask element].tt_content_defValues.header = My awesome static title. As I said in the comments, though: I always give my Mask elements a header field and let editors fill that in.
Sorry if this question is simple but I have googled and haven't found a satisfactory answer.
I'm creating an engineering cost estimator. I have a form that takes inputs as ISO/Drawing, and for each drawing number are many subforms where you can input ComponentDesc and should spit back out a TotalHours to complete number. I've included a picture (sorry for bad quality)
From the image, the table on the bottom is a subform in datasheet mode (which is usually hidden and located in the footer) which will calculate appropriate Total MH (manhours) for the ComponentDesc inputted into the subform on the right. I would like the small (and incomplete) textboxes to the left (below the title "MH Totals for ISO/Drawings") to display the aggregate total from the subform on the bottom.
I've been trying to use DSUM() to define Control Source for the textbox but it keeps coming back with #ERROR as seen in the textbox to the left. Right now what I have typed out is:
=DSum("[Total MH]","frm-PipingHandleMH")
in the expression builder. [Total MH] being my field and frm-PipingHandleMH being the subform on the bottom. I've tried to put brackets around everything but it didn't work (even though I'm not exactly sure what brackets usually do). Any advice?
DSum (and all domain aggregate functions) acts on a table or query. If you want to use that approach you need to refer to the source of that form and use a filter parameter to limit to appropriate records the I.E. if the form's datasource is qry-PipingHandles and if the form you are trying to sum on currently is showing handles for widget 4 then it would be something like:
=dsum("[Total MH]","qry-PipingHandles","[widgetID] = 4")
Note that if that 4 was the currrent state of form then you need to pass it in, so something like:
=dsum("[Total MH]","qry-PipingHandles","[widgetID] = " & [frm-PipingHandlesMH]![WidgetID].Value)
Where you reference the field in the form and append it onto the string that is applied as a filter to the source for Dsum.
Another approach is to put a subtotal in the footer of the form (iirc you don't actually need to show the footer) and then reference that footer control from the parent form.
Brackets are needed to demarcate names that include spaces or other odd characters, they also can be used (e.g. in query design view) to force Access to treat something as a name rather than a string literal.
I had an editable pdf with checkbox, after selection i flatten that pdf. from that flatten pdf i need to read the checkbox selection which is looks like crossmark(X), is there any possibility to read that checkbox selection.
When you flatten a PDF, you take away all interactivity. If you have a check box field in an interactive form, and you flatten that form, the check box field is gone. That is the concept of flattening.
What happens in practice?
A check box field has two appearances. One appearance is Off. This appearance can be a path such as a simple square defined as a rectangle. Another appearance can have any name On, Yes, 1 or whatever is defined in the original form. The corresponding appearance can be the same square as the Off appearance with two extra lines that look like a cross, or the square with a character that looks like a check mark, or whatever was defined in the original form.
When you flatten the form, you throw away the name of the check box field, you throw away the widget annotation that corresponds with the field, and you throw away one appearance state (depending on the value of the check box field). The only thing that is left, is one of the two appearances.
If you no longer have the original form, you have no clue as to what this appearance could look like, hence you have no idea what to look for, nor where to look for a specific appearance.
You say that the appearance looks like a cross mark in your case, but whoever reads this question has no idea if this cross mark is a path that was constructed in graphics state, or a glyph that was added in text state.
Long story short: if you flatten first and then expect to be able to read a field value, your design is seriously flawed.
You have to ask yourself: why do I need to flatten the form? Maybe it's sufficient to make the fields read-only. If that's not sufficient, why don't you add an attachment to the PDF that contains the original field values? There are many different ways to work around your problem.
Using the report-designer of Reportbuilder i want to add a long fixed text to my report with one or more included fields inside the text. Of course these fields should be filled with actual data, adjusting the text.
I remember I have done such a thing in the past, but cannot remember how. I thought you could accomplish this with a Text-field and something like 'This is the text and here {fieldname} fielddata is inserted', but that doesnt seem to work
Can anybody help?
Using reportbuilder 15.04
Response from Digital Metaphores:
Use the RichtText component! By setting MailMerge to true, you can add
datafields to text in the richtext editor
This adds the reference to the fielddata as a xml tag. Adding the fields Name from pipeline plData can be done like this:
<dbtext datapipeline='plData'>Name</dbtext>
Fill in the fixed text, then (making sure the focus is set to the text box, I.E. you have the flashing pipe cursor) right click in the place you want the data field to go, and click Create Placeholder.
In the Placeholder properties window give it a Label so you know what it is, then use the "Value" field to define what data from your datasets you want to be brought through.
You should end up with the Label you set in square brackets, like [Example] within the set text.
Is there a way of altering the title bar height for a form (actually a subform) when it is displayed in datasheet mode?
My field titles are often longer than the data and there is not very much I can do about this. It's not a problem when the form is in 'Single Form' view, but there will be lots of times when the datasheet view is helpful, because it's a good summary of info.
I had thought that forcing a new line in the field title might work, but it doesn't.
Access does not allow for this to be done. The standard way most Access developers circumnavigate this issue is to use labels. Set your DatasheetCaptions to blanks ("") and use labels as your column headers. This way you can multi-line them or format them however you want.