Printing long product descriptions
  • David Macfarlane
    Printing long product descriptions

    by David Macfarlane » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:04 pm

    In the stock screens field Description (or known to Capital as TITLE), you can type in a couple of lines of text.

    We want to be able to print ALL the text in that field on the forms or reports etc that we create in Visual Builder. Is this possible?? If we can do it please explain how.

    When we put that field 'TITLE' on a form or whatever, only the first line prints.

    Many thanks and I look forward to hearing.
  • COBS Tech Support
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    by COBS Tech Support » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:15 pm

    The field Stock->Title will only display the first 40 characters of a stock item's product description. If your product descriptions are typically longer than that, then in Visual Builder do the following:

    1. Double-click on the product description field object.
    2. Next to "Name" replace Stock->Title with StockTitleLong
    3. Next to Display Length, enter the maximum line description you want to display, e.g., 80 or 100.
    3. Click on the Formula tab.
    4. Inside the editor window type:

    Return StockDescription()

    5. Press OK to save your changes.

    Note that the function StockDescription() is new to CAPITAL 7.4 or above. Also, product descriptions can be of unlimited length, however you always have a limited amount of space in which to display such information on your forms. So some compromise for space reasons may still be required.

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