I have some text field that can have content that span multiple lines. I see that in the default layout those are showed in multiple lines. I’m tryng to make some custom layout but I can’t seem to find a way to make them behave the same way (show the text on multiple lines when needed).
Thanks for any reply.
Hi Walter,
You should use a Note field for that. So you should switch your Text field to be a Note field and then drag out the Note field object onto your custom layout.
You’ll be able to easily enter multiple lines that way.
Thanks!
Brendan
Thank you Brendan. But I’m curious to know why you get multiple lines on a text field in the default layout and not in custom layouts. Same thing with multiple pages. I guess that the costum layouts have some restriction that default doesn’t have. And that’s a pity because your program is really awesome for its simplicity and user friendly approach. But for a professional user like me who needs to have a flexible way to print the data collected in your wonderful database, maybe it’s not the way to go.
The Default Layout is generated algorithmically with dynamic row heights for each cell of the table view.
For custom layouts, each object you place there is given a fixed size according to however you’ve sized it.
If you really want to use a Text field instead of a Note field on a custom layout, you’ll still need to drag the field’s box to a size that you want. But instead of just being able to press the return key whenever you want a line break, you’ll need to press option-return to insert a line break.
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