[Dhis2-devs] How do I expand the textbox used to hold a memo data type

2013-06-24 Thread John Ojo
Dear All, I have a field formatted to hold DHIS2 Long Text data type so I can use it to capture comments (i.e. long text).  The issue is, I want the field to display on the form as a large text area so it easy to see and read its entire content at a glance rather than as a tiny box with all

Re: [Dhis2-devs] How do I expand the textbox used to hold a memo data type

2013-06-24 Thread Lars Helge Øverland
Hi John, please go the data dictionary module, edit data element, set value type to text and text type to long text, then open your form. You might need to clear browser cache. regards, Lars On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:28 PM, John Ojo jn...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All, I have a field

Re: [Dhis2-devs] How do I expand the textbox used to hold a memo data type

2013-06-24 Thread John Ojo
Hi Lars, Thanks but those are the exact settings i have for the data element. I cleared my cache and re-opened the form and it's the same tiny box staring at me. I even tried setting the text width to a number say 100 within the form designer and still no effect. I am using DHIS2 2.12 build 

Re: [Dhis2-devs] How do I expand the textbox used to hold a memo data type

2013-06-24 Thread Knut Staring
Hi John, have you tried Chrome incognito mode? Sent from my mobile On Jun 24, 2013 3:52 PM, John Ojo jn...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Lars, Thanks but those are the exact settings i have for the data element. I cleared my cache and re-opened the form and it's the same tiny box staring at me. I