Inserting a linebreak into a rich text box

[Patrick Temple]

Is there a way to insert line breaks into a rich text box?

Scenario: Creating a log for a field state change. Every time the state
changes, I want to post the following informaiton into a rich text box:
Date, Last Name, First Name, State, Reason for Change.

I accomplish this using the concat() function but I don't have a way to
insert a line break to keep the log lines seperate. So it ends up being a
jumbled mess. Any ideas?

Thanks

--Patrick

 

[Scott L. Heim [MSFT]]

Hi Patrick,

Question: do you need to use the Rich Text control? If not, you could
simply use a text box control and enable the "Paragraph Breaks" option.

Scott L. Heim
Microsoft Developer Support

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[Patrick Temple]

Scott,

That would be fine, but how do I get the carriage return inserted.
Currently I'm using rules, do I need to do this with Javascript? The rule
looks like this:

history = concat(<history>, <date>, " ", <name>, " ", <state>, " ",
<reason>, "<carriage return>");

works fine except for <carriage return>, it converts everything to text.

Let me know what you think
Thanks

--Patrick

 

[Scott L. Heim [MSFT]]

Patrick,

Take a look at the following - I just tested this and it works like a champ!

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/search.aspx?q=line+break&p=1

Scott L. Heim
Microsoft Developer Support

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[Patrick Temple]

Scott,

That worked perfectly. Bit of a Kluge, perhaps Microsoft could look at
adding a carriage return function in following SP's. However, in the mean
time it works great. Thanks a heap.

--Patrick

 

[Scott L. Heim [MSFT]]

I'll be happy to pass along your comments Patrick!

Take care,

Scott L. Heim
Microsoft Developer Support

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