Display Tags Just Checking

Classic Servoy
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Am i correct in believing that the moment you change any text within an editable field that contains a %%display tag%% that the field will no longer respond to a change in the field referred to in the display tag?

2

I think you are correct.
If I’m correct, in an editable textfield the tag-replace is only done once!

Hope this helps

3

From what i can see it does keep changing the data if you change the data in another field, but if you change anything within the field even if it not the actual displayed tag text then the field then stays static.

i.e

The Lazy %%brown%% fox jumps.

if you change the field brown in another field on the screen it will keep changing, but if you just go in and delete the fullstop at the end then from then on it wont change again.

I was just checking because i am creating a complex report with default text which is then editable at a subsection level and then editable at a final whole report preview level and it gets quite complicated.

If anyone has a different view i would be interested in hearing it.

4

On a similar subject is there any way that you can format text (bold, underline) etc from a method is an editable field.

I tried using HTML but of course this comes out with the <>tags if displayed in an editable mode.

The work around i have done at present is to have my template as a preformatted field with section display tags within it and i then paste that into my preview field.

Can you use html and get a method to display it as formatted without the tags, but still have it remain editable. (if you see what i mean).

David

5

On a slight tangent, I have text on a form

%%globals.currentDate%% 
Invoice Number %%invoice_id%%

Which on a WIN XP box prints like

2/6/07
Invoice Number 10001

but on a Mac prints like

2/6/07 7:47 AM
Invoice Number 10,001

The prefs settings are the same on both platforms. How do I control this?

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are you really sure that the settings locale.dateformat is on both machines exactly the same? Because that is the only property that will be used for formatting that date in display tag text.