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

Post by 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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[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
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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

Post by 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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[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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[Martyn Lawson]

Hi Scott,

I have read this blog and tried to take from it what i need, but i cannot
get my example to work.

I have a sharepoint list used as secondary datasource. This list has a field
called address which is 'multiple lines of text' datatype. When the data is
brought in to InfoPath using a rule, the carriage returns are replaced with
spaces. I have a solution working by modifying the sharepoint list to use a
random character for a carriage return, such as ? and then using the
translate function in infopath to insert a CrLF using the mentioned blog.

However, as you can appreciate this is not a very sophisticated solution as
the sharepoint list looks awful. Is it possible to use the translate function
in this way? I need to know what character sharepoint is returning and when
it is converted to a space.

I thought about changing the sharepoint list to have multiple address fields
and then use the concat funtion. However, since i would be inserting CrLfs
between them i could end up with blank lines if the sharepoint field is empty.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Martyn...

Post by 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
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights