I am amazed you are seeing that many characters on the Fom-App-Object Guide7.1 page 200 Specifically states that Search menus value only returns max 255 characters.
<From the Guide> >From the Value Field list, select the field whose value will be assigned to the lowest level menu item selected in step 4. Only the first 255 bytes of the field are displayed. On Jun 2, 9:04 am, "Martin, Dwayne" <marti...@jmu.edu> wrote: > Dear List, > We have a Search menu that retrieves a character value from another form. > For some reason, the menu only retrieves 279 characters. Both the field on > the source form, and the field with the menu have 0 character limits. If we > add additional text to the beginning of source the field, the menu still > retrieves 270 characters, so it doesn't seem to be cutting off at a bad > character. > I've checked the documentation and don't see anything about a limit to how > much text a menu can retrieve, but I could easily be missing something. > Any suggestions on what might be wrong? > For now the work-around is to have the menu retrieve a key value, then have > an Active Link retrieve the text value based on the key. > Dwayne Martin > James Madison University > (ARS 7.1 p3, RH Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives atwww.arslist.org > attend wwrug10www.wwrug.comARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
