Re: Limit to Field Length in DB

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 16750
interpreted = N
texte = >With this problem solved, I'm still interested in how people solve the>problem of creating links to other documents within the included text>files? Also how do you handle other formating like for bold etc? Do you>just teach your people the basic html for formating and or is>there another Web Catalog command that I'm missing to handle this problem?I recommend you give them a nice clean GUI editor like Visual Page and then have them copy/paste the source text into a WebCatalog form field.Or teach them , , etc, and use a custom [ConvertChars] that converts %0D to
(and does no other conversions, so that < doesn't get changed to < and screw up your embedded links).If your articles are similar enough in their layout and format (date headers, subject lines, phone numbers, table of contents, body copy), you may be able to create a nice fill-in form that would then 'render' out HTML to a text file with all the nice bells & whistles wrapped around the form variables.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Limit to Field Length in DB (PCS Technical Support 1998)

Re: Limit to Field Length in DB (Mark Anderson 1998)

Re: Limit to Field Length in DB (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1998)

Re: Limit to Field Length in DB (Mark Anderson 1998)

Re: Limit to Field Length in DB (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1998)

Re: Limit to Field Length in DB (PCS Technical Support 1998)

Limit to Field Length in DB (Mark Anderson 1998)

>With this problem solved, I'm still interested in how people solve the>problem of creating links to other documents within the included text>files? Also how do you handle other formating like for bold etc? Do you>just teach your people the basic html for formating and or is>there another Web Catalog command that I'm missing to handle this problem?I recommend you give them a nice clean GUI editor like Visual Page and then have them copy/paste the source text into a WebCatalog form field.Or teach them , , etc, and use a custom [convertchars] that converts %0D to
(and does no other conversions, so that < doesn't get changed to < and screw up your embedded links).If your articles are similar enough in their layout and format (date headers, subject lines, phone numbers, table of contents, body copy), you may be able to create a nice fill-in form that would then 'render' out HTML to a text file with all the nice bells & whistles wrapped around the form variables.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ PCS Technical Support

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