Re: Help with LotusScript for a text box. Please.

Any chance that all of your 5250 users use PC's?  If so, then instead of a 
variable length field it could be a DATALINK field.  In one of our 
databases we used one.  The contents of the field has something like 
//myserver/myshare/mydoc.doc 
And then to edit that field you can load your editor of choice on the PC. 
We use it to link engineering drawings to an item number.

Rob Berendt
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Rob,

Agreed that variable length would have some advantages but some of the 
notes fill several SFILE pages and there are some REQUIRED line breaks.. 
So it turns into trading one complication for another.

I took an un-educated chance and threw the proposed change into the 
form. So far so good but the user review is again tomorrow.

Thanks.

Roger

On 1/5/2004 10:03 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Any chance you can change the 5250 end?  Dump using a subfile, and a 
>separate record in a file for each line of notes.  Instead use a variable 

>length field.  When we lost OV/400 and storing our Notes in OV/400 
>documents this is what we did instead.  Granted, doing variable length 
>fields is a lot simpler on html and notes than it is on 5250 screens, but 

>it is doable.  Subfiles s... for multiple lines of notes.  You delete 
>three characters in the first line and you have to manually adjust the 
>rest.
>
>Rob Berendt
> 
>

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