Thanks to everyone who responded regarding my request for additional help on keeping a field limited to 1 line. First, I definitely prefer an auto enter calc solution over a dialog box. Although the majority of my users are pretty savvy and familiar with our system, I have a few that use it maybe once every week or 2, and no matter how much training and help I provide, they either can't or won't remember a thing. And my experiences with dialogs in general are, nobody really reads the details, they just whack a button, then I have to clean up the mess. And finally, why ask the user to do something in 2, 3 or 4 steps that I can do in the background in 1?
So the Substitute function ( Substitute ( Self ; "Paragraph Symbol" ; "" )) does work fine for removing any carriage returns. My bigger question was (and maybe I didn't make it clear) that I also wanted to remove any additional text the user typed in after the carriage return. In testing the auto enter, I found that if a user input: john (carriage return) jim (carriage return) The Substitute auto enter would result in: johnjim What I want is: john I also wanted to trap for more than one carriage return with data typed in so: john (carriage return) jim (carriage return) amy (carriage return) mark (carriage return) Did not become" johnjimamymark This may sound unlikely, but in our older FMP6 solution, ID'ing multiple people in a photo shoot was done this way.... now the names reside in a child table of People, entered in the system in a portal from the parent table. So that's why I had included the RightWords steps in the substitute also, to try to remove anything after the first carriage return. If anyone has a more elegant fix for that, I'm all ears. Thanks Rick ----------------------- Rick O’Quinn Photographic Services Coordinator University of Georgia Public Affairs Broadcast, Video & Photographic Services 188 Georgia Center Athens GA 30602-3603 Work: (706) 542-8085 Fax: (706) 583-0011 [email protected] http://www.photo.alumni.uga.edu
