Holding field data with Terminal Services

[gail]

I have created a date field that converts numbers to text
in a document for a specific date field. The date field
is one I have inserted from my own management software
program (TAM), not a common Word field. There are other
TAM codes in the document and they all work fine until I
copy the document, thru Terminal Services, to another
server in our organization.
After the transfer the TAM codes are fine unless they are
inside a field command at which time the TAM variable no
longer reads as a variable and types the command as though
it were text putting little boxes at the front end of the
variable field.
So this:
{QUOTE <CPOL.POLICY.EFF> \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"}
becomes this:
{QUOTE []CPOL.POLICY.EFF [] \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"}
but [] is actually a small rectangle - Any ideas?

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Gail,

Without understanding exactly how TAM is managing its
"fields", it's impossible to venture a guess. What you show
is not native to Word.

I have created a date field that converts numbers to text
in a document for a specific date field. The date field
is one I have inserted from my own management software
program (TAM), not a common Word field. There are other
TAM codes in the document and they all work fine until I
copy the document, thru Terminal Services, to another
server in our organization.
After the transfer the TAM codes are fine unless they are
inside a field command at which time the TAM variable no
longer reads as a variable and types the command as though
it were text putting little boxes at the front end of the
variable field.
So this:
{QUOTE <CPOL.POLICY.EFF> \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"}
becomes this:
{QUOTE []CPOL.POLICY.EFF [] \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"}
but [] is actually a small rectangle

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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