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adding large amounts of static text to infomaker report

Kathleen Smith
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Hi everyone,

I'm having to use Infomaker to create some order confirmations for a few of my departments, and I was wondering- is there a magic way to add large amounts of static text (think Terms and Conditions) to the report, or am I really stuck to having to use a million fields of 255 characters at a time?  I would like to *not* have to do a separate document in Word of the Ts&Cs that would get stuffed in with the infomaker document, but if it's that or my sanity... :-)

Thanks!
Kathleen 

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    Hi Kathleen,

    That 255 character limit is a pain! In cases like this, I actually have the text hardcoded into the stored procedure and returned as a text field - not elegant but it works pretty well.

    As John comments, as the text is returned as a single string, formatting (italics, bold, etc) is not possible. I haven't considered a local system table as we don't have (not yet, anyway!) variables that need to be printed that are longer than 255 - although I can't see why this wouldn't work.

    Martin

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  • $organization

    Hi Kathleen,

    That 255 character limit is a pain! In cases like this, I actually have the text hardcoded into the stored procedure and returned as a text field - not elegant but it works pretty well.

    As John comments, as the text is returned as a single string, formatting (italics, bold, etc) is not possible. I haven't considered a local system table as we don't have (not yet, anyway!) variables that need to be printed that are longer than 255 - although I can't see why this wouldn't work.

    Martin

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