Memo Field Wrapping in middle of word

rbuser

Hi,
We have Report Builder Enterprise Edition version 11.08 which was packaged
with a software program we run called Jim2.

We have a data field which is a concatenation of serial numbers for stock
items sold on a particular job. The serial numbers are all separated by
commas in the field.

When you place this memo field on a report, the serial numbers wrap in the
middle of a number and this looks dreadful. We would like to basically tell
the system to only wrap after a comma.

I do have access to the scripts that generate the reports so can either use
Calc or the underlying script to do any required coding.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mandy



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nicocizik

Hi Mandy,

Memos do not expand horizontally, only vertically. If you need a
control that expands horizontally you need to use a Label or DBText.

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rbuser

?Hi Nico,

Thanks, I was aware of that. I worked out a way to do what we needed to do.
It was putting all the comma separated serial numbers into one line of the
memo field lines array so when it got to the edge of the Memo box it wrapped
to the next physical line (expanding vertically as you said). I have now got
it to show x number of serial numbers and then break to the next physical
line for the next x number.




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