Hi Everyone,
i have a controlled area in my form where every update to the document has to be date/time stamped and signed. I am doing this via an update button, which prompts the user with a large dislog box to type the update in…you know whats coming!
The text field is limited to 255 characters, is there any way for this to be increased or a better method to capture an update on my form?
Thanks very much for any suggestions.
F1H
Subject: Re: 255 Character Limit
I see a possible reason of the limit - if it is all stored in the document, that keeping a history of a very large field would be clumsy.
We have one solution for field changes logging, that works this way:
In a configuration document, you specify which fields are logged for which form.
When a document is open for editing, a temporary copy of that document is created (not saved).
When a document is saved, the fields set up for logging, are compared to those in the original document. All differencies are logged to separate log documents, to a table in a Richtext field.
Since it is outside the data document itself, and since it is done it richtext, we don’t need to worry about size limits - the code it written so that even changes in richtext fields can be logged.
It is a different approach - you asked for ideas so this is one possibility.