Hello Everyone:
I have a database in 5.13 still in which I have a problem when creating a rich text out of many rich text fields. I am looking now in version 6 to see if the problem has been solved. I have not used or developed anything yet in version 6 but this is what I am trying to do. I need to create a document for printing but this document is the collection of the content of several documents. I create the first document with a richtext field for body then I make a collection of the documents I need to use and their content is in richtext fields too. I used the append rich text item to add one document after the other but I need to apply a different style to each one of them. Everything works fine if the source document has only on paragraph in the body if there is more than one paragraph then from the second paragraph on it looses the style I had applied for that richtext.
I had contacted lotus with this problem and they recognized that it was a problem and now that I was reading about new richtext objects and I thought that maybe they will solved my problem if any of you have any idea please let me know.
Thanks
Mynor
Subject: Looking for a Rich Text solution in version 6
You say: "I need to create a document for printing but this document is the collection of the content of several documents. "
You can use the “RenderToRTItem” method of a rich text field to do this. It will automatically take a “snapshot” of a given document (the WHOLE document) and append it at the end of a given rich text item.
You can even programatically create those temporary documents with the proper fields, form, etc…, then render it to the RTF and “forget” the temporary document (by not saving it), effectivly building a very good report algorythm.
Hoping this will help!
Nicolas Abesdris
Quintessence e-solutions Inc.
Subject: RE: Looking for a Rich Text solution in version 6
Hi Nicolas
Thanks for your response but the problem is as follows: I have a collection of articles/bylaws each one of them in an individual document since it has more information than the actual bylaw but then I need to print the booklet of the bylaws in the format of the main baylaw say 1.0 gets indented but 1.1.a gets a different indentation and formating. What I do is that I create what I call my print document which is just a rich text field then I go into each one of the bylaw documents and get the body of the bylaw which is also a rich text document. I append this to the rich text on the print document and it actually works quite fine until I get rich text on the bylaw document with multiple paragraphs and then is where I loose the indentation and any other formatting on the second, third and any other paragraph.
I now this is quite complex but I was hoping that may be some one had used the new elements on the richt text and have some advice on what can be done or not.
Mynor
Subject: RE: Looking for a Rich Text solution in version 6
My guess is that if you are getting to this stage of rich text manipulation, you will either need to get really clever with DXL or try a third party product such as our Midas Rich Text LSX, which will let you manipulate paragraphs in ways that the Notes rich text classes won’t. It is a commercial product, so it will cost you something, but it is fairly easy to use.