Native OS Style Bug- Alternate Ideas?

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  1. I Have a Form which needs to Display a table 25 rows and 25 columns. 2) The title of each Column consists of 10,20 lines of text. If i use a Computed Text or Computed for Display that huge text(topic) extends the size of the cell and it looks ugly.

  2. I want to restrict the display of the cell to a fixed size(1.2 inch height and 1.5 inch width). By doing this i dont want to shrink the text to be displayed. Initial appearance has to be small and if users need to see the rest of the text they can scroll through using a scroll bar.

  3. This facility can be achieved using Field Properties - Native OS Style. This allows me to achieve what i need.

But the catch is, there is a bug with this property. The Scroll bar appearing hides 2 characters on each line at the end.

The Same Problem has already been Posted and havent got a solution to it.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/30bc930d3dd964bb852571410017ed1b?OpenDocument

I am planning to send this Issue to IBM.

Now my question is , Is there a workaround or some other way to achieve this functonality in notes? Please let me know.

Note: Notes Client - 7.0.1

Thanks a Ton

Raj

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Subject: Native OS Style Bug- Alternate Ideas?

Raj,

How about a small amount of text and a popup/bubble that will display the rest of the text, instead of using a field with scrollbars?

2c,

raphael

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Subject: RE: Native OS Style Bug- Alternate Ideas?

What do you mean by Popup/Bubble ? Yu mean Hotspots ? Yr idea seams an very good alternative to my problem. But if you can advice how it can be achieved it would be great.

Thanks for yr time

Raj

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Subject: Problem Solved

I created a link beneath the field with a formula “hotspot-on click” to show the entire text. This way the characters hidden by the scrollbar will be visible to the users. If they wants to read the entire text they can click the link and read it.

Hope this helps to some one in future.