Re: How do you maintain text line returns in a grid text field

Method_Justin — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:04:44 GMT

Hi NickZeik,

If you want to accomplish this, you can do so by making the grid editable. Go to the Grid Wizard for the grid you want to edit by clicking Edit on the top right of the grid object when customizing the screen. Go to Step 5 of 9 in the grid wizard that pops up and select the radio button to the left of Editing takes place directly in the grid. You can leave the rest of the settings here the same.

Unfortunately this will require a bit of extra work if you want the grid to remain read-only, as you will have to make each field read-only individually. You can do this from Step 2 of 9 of the grid wizard. Click on Advanced for each of the field names in the columns list, then check the box beside Make Read Only and hit Save & Close.

Hit Finish on the Grid Wizard and publish the changes to your screen, it should have the effect you're looking for. If it doesn't, just let me know and I'll see how I can help.

Hope this helps.

- Justin

How do you maintain text line returns in a grid text field

NickZeik — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:04:08 GMT

On the Estimate and Invoice pages, the invoice/Estimate line table grid displays line breaks from QB in the Desc field. However when I try to create a similar grid in a custom page, the text runs together and the line returns are ignored in a field I link to the Desc field. Is there a setting I'm missing to preserve the orignal formatiing?

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