Text fields with <CR> <LF>

[Kamil Dursun]

The Textn fields of a task or a resource do not accept special characters as
<CR> or <LF>.

Is there a way to make these fields accept the special characters?

Thanks
Kamil

 

[JackD]

No. The only field that can use this is the notes field.

 

[Kamil Dursun]

Thank you Jack,

Where can I find which characters are allowed in a Textn field and if
possible, a routine that strips the text of the unwanted characters?

Kamil

 

[JackD]

Any ascii text is allowed. It is just the way that it is interpreted (or not
in this case) the is the problem You can put <CR> in the field, but nothing
will happen with it.
You could write a routine to strip out anything you like. You can use
functions like instr and other string functions (left, right, trim) to find
and remove things. You have to decide what is unwanted though.

 

[Kamil Dursun]

OK. It's just that I copy some text to Textn variables using VBA. If the
original text contains special characters such as <CR>, <LF>, <TAB> then I
get an error message.

I got round my problem by using the following line(s):

Str=replace(Str,vbCr,";")
Str=replace(Str,vbLf,";")
Str=replace(Str,vbTab,";")
Task1.Text6 = Str

It is a bit heavy but works. The special characters become ";"

Thanks again
Kamil

 

[JackD]

Great.