I have an application that’s been in use for a couple of months. Documents are mailed into the database. These documents contain tables in the rich text body field. When I used to open these the tables were fine, I could read them and they stretched halfway across the screen. When I open them now, the tables are bunched up on the left half of the screen and a lot of the data in the tables is now wrapping, which makes the numbers in the table hard to read.
If I open old documents that used to display correctly, they are now displaying incorrectly. The same holds true for every user who I have asked to open the documents, so it’s not just my client.
The only change I can think of that may have happened is that the design element (the form the with the body field) may have been saved with an ND7 designer client, whereas previously it had been saved with an ND6 designer client. However, I can’t verify that that is when the problem started. And I don’t see why that would have made a difference.
Any ideas on what I can look at to try to get this fixed? TIA for any info.
Subject: RE: Rich Text Field, MIME, Tables Have Changed
When the design was edited, what was done to the form? Is the rich text field now inside of a table cell, where perhaps before it was not? Could the margin settings of the rich text field have been changed? (I wouldn’t normally expect this to matter because rich text has its own paragraph settings, but rich text is weird).
Subject: RE: Rich Text Field, MIME, Tables Have Changed
I actually ended up calling Lotus Support. It was weird because it was the same document on the same server, just a different client. It looked OK with the 6 client, but not with the 7. Turns out it is a bug. Unfortunately, it was broken in 6, and fixed in 7. I say unfortunately because it actually looked better in 6.
The table was being sent with a fixed table width. In 6, the fixed width was being ignored and the table was extended to the width of the margins. In 7, the fixed width was being adhered to, like it should. In my case, that made things too scrunched up. But at least I know that it’s working like it should - that’s good - I guess. I can work with the sender to have them fix the table before sending it.
I can work with the sender to have them fix the table before sending it.