Names field

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I have a question about a names, editable field. I’m pretty sure it’s ok that way I have it but I want to ask.

I have the default value as two names “Bob Jone”:Sally Jane"

In the view, the value shows the colon instead of the comma between the names. Is that ok?

I put two people in the field since both need to edit this section. I can make a field and put the other name in there if this is a better way to do this.

Thanks…

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Subject: RE: names field

…sorry, I have it like this:

“Bob:Sally”

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Subject: RE: names field

First, make sure you’ve got the “allow multiple values” box checked in the field properties. Otherwise, this will go nowhere fast.

Second, that’s not going to work. What you’ve done is set up a string value which happens to contain a colon. What you want is this:

“Bob” : “Sally”

The colon glues together separate values into a list. If it’s inside the quotation marks as you have it, Notes sees it as simply part of a string rather than part of a formula to be evaluated. It’s like the difference between this:

“foo + bar”

…and this:

“foo” + “bar”

The first one is a single string which happens to contain a plus sign. The second puts two different values together.

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Subject: RE: names field

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I got it now.

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Subject: RE: names field

In addition to what M Riggsby said - you can go on to use View and View Column Properties to control how Domino displays multiple values. Names might look better displayed on seperate lines - change the View Properties to allow multiple lines (say 9 but shrink to fit) and the Column properties to display multiple values on a new line.