Underlining text

Classic Servoy
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I’d like to format a field that its text appears in blue underlined. I’m sure it can be done, just can’t figure out how.

While searching for a method I investigated the new Styles top level icon in the Editor. What’s the cb2 and ictoost styles installed by default? Neither term comes up when searching in Help.

2

Try this:

<html>
  <head>
    
  </head>
  <body>
    <font color="blue"><u>Internet URL</u></font>
  </body>
</html>
3

HJK:
Try this:

<html>
Internet URL > ```

Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I want the contents of a field inside a portal to be underlined blue. The above would work for a label. Haven’t been able to figure out how to get a label to work in a portal.

4

Morley,

You can use a label in a portal, no problems. To view DATA in a label - change the “dataProvider” property of the label to the field you want to display - or you can use %%fieldname%% in the TEXT property (NOTE: If you use this method you MUST also choose the “displayTags” property as well).

Cheers,

Bob Cusick

5

bcusick:
Morley,

You can use a label in a portal, no problems. To view DATA in a label - change the “dataProvider” property of the label to the field you want to display - or you can use %%fieldname%% in the TEXT property (NOTE: If you use this method you MUST also choose the “displayTags” property as well).

Cheers,

Bob Cusick

Doesn’t work. I’m dense, especially on Wednesdays. :(
Select the portal, click the label creation tool, edit the text of the label to display the related field (same relationship as the portal), choose “Display Tags”. Nothing, blank, nada.

Alternatively, turn the text into “whatever”, set the dataprovider to be the required field, turn off DisplayTags and required fields turn up. That works BUT that also defeats displaying the text as blue underlined, the original purpose of the exercise.

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Morley, you can do the following:

  1. add a calculated field;
  2. fill the field with the below mentioned code
  3. add a reference to the field with the required value
  4. follow the directions of bob
    5 voila
return '<html><font color="blue"><u>'+referenced.fieldname+'</u></font></html>';
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Hi Morley,

Sorry - I didn’t see “PORTAL”. I ALWAYS use a tabpanel (NEVER portals anymore).

To make this work on a PORTAL, click the portal object and DO CHECK the “multiLine” property AND ALSO set the “rowHeight” property (I use 25 as a starting point). THEN the label stuff as described will work just fine.

You use the “multiLine” portal to be like a FMP portal (or just use another form in LIST view - which is what I do).

Bob