There might be an easier way to do this,
but here is our current solution to the italicize/underline question. We
use this solution for our collections committee “agenda” report
which requires printing some italicized words in the title and curatorial
remarks fields.
We add html markup tags to the Unicode fields
(title and curatorial remarks), then print those fields on the report (from the
ObjContext table). Then in
One note, once the field is interpreted as
html, the paragraph return breaks need to be added as html tags as well.
This is an issue for us with our Curatorial Remarks field, where we often have
several paragraphs of text that are double spaced between each paragraph.
My biggest drawback with this method is
that we are adding the title and remarks to two different fields (the TMS
cardinal sin). But users don’t like to see the html tags in their “regular”
fields, and this is a fairly limited use. I am curious though if others
have solutions that are easy and work better.
Good luck David – hope this helps.
Ella
Collections Information and Imaging
Administrator
314.655.5408
314.721.6172 fax
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
5:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Underlining and
italicising
HI David,
I haven’t done
this myself, but I think there have been postings about it sometime this year.
The
Jeri
Jeri Moxley
Manager, Collection
and Exhibition Technologies
Collection
Management and Exhibition Registration
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Tel. (212) 708-9599
Fax. (212) 333-1102
From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
6:28 PM
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Subject: Underlining and
italicising
I
hate posting different questions to you all twice in two days like this, but
I’m SOOOOOO needy, while being SOOOO VERY clueless!
Is
there any way to enter data into TMS so that it will be italicized or
underlined in a Crystal Report? I dimly recall entering some symbols
around the phrases we wanted underlined, so that they would print out
underlined in the fact sheet, but the same field printed in any crystal report
would just show the ugly programming symbol.
Can
we use the same symbols and then write some formula or something to make the
data function in the same manner in a CR?
Thanks
for your patience, advice, and help…
David
David
Aylsworth
Collections
Registrar
telephone:
713-639-7824
fax:
713-639-7780