Trying to find a way for a user to copy a whole document, containing a large table with a mixture of text and computed text, into a memo.
If he does select all, copy and paste into a new memo, all the computed text gets lost. Same thing happens using an action button in the form with @Command([MailForward]).
The only way I have found to stop this so far is to replace the computed text with computed fields, but as there are over 80 of them I don’t want to massively increase the size of the documents and the database.
I have a nagging feeling there’s something very simple I can do to fix this, but haven’t found it yet.
Any pointers greatly appreciated…
Suzie.
Subject: question, what happens if you do the copy when in read mode?
Do you lose the computed for display fields in edit mode or also in read mode?
Howard
Subject: makes no difference
Once documents created with this particular form reach ‘complete’ status, everything is locked and editable fields hidden so all fields are read-only as in Read mode.
In edit mode ‘select all’ & copy results in just one thing in the clipboard: an image file on the form!
Same result with ‘mail forward’ - no computed texts / CFDs showing.
Subject: How about…
Have the user click a button that opens up a new document (either in a new tab or in a dialog box) where you have one big rich text field that you create what you want to mail forward via the query open? For that matter, if your goal is simply to mail the document then have a button that opens up a new mail memo, then gets the Body field of the memo and creates the equivalent of the form via rich text classes using LotusScript?
Howard
Subject: thanks will try that…
…however I was hoping there’d be a way to get the UI to retain the info like it used to in versions previous to 6.
One workaround is to copy and paste it all into MS Word, then re-copy it and paste into the memo, but users don’t usually like workarounds.
Regards Suzie.
Subject: Nothing works
…I have tried creating a new Memo doc.RenderToRTItem, and also just plain Send (with first parameter ‘True’ - i.e. include form with document) however the client still elects to ignore all the Computed Text.