Page design woes

gbayliss
gbayliss Member Posts: 16
edited 2012-11-26 in NAV Three Tier
I've been experimenting with page design in RTC and I'm beginning to think that I'm missing something fundamental.

I have several text fields that require 150 characters input. In the good old days these fields could be drawn into a form but RTC insists on splitting the fastab into 2 columns.

Is there a way to have a long textbox in RTC?

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  • MarkHamblin
    MarkHamblin Member Posts: 118
    I haven't spent much time playing with this, but I'm not sure it's possible (even with the new 2013 layout options - I think there's a bug in the ColumnSpan property or I'm missing something). Others are having similar issues - e.g., http://mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=55565

    Multiline controls work much better than in classic so having a taller but less wide control might look OK, but I'd be curious to see if anyone's found a decent workaround or knows how to get ColumnSpan working properly.
  • gbayliss
    gbayliss Member Posts: 16
    Thanks for the reply ... glad to know it's not just me seeing this as an issue.

    Textbox width seems like a fundamentally useful UI attribute as it gives the user a clue as to the available input length.

    It seems very strange that RTC throws this away.
  • MarkHamblin
    MarkHamblin Member Posts: 118
    gbayliss wrote:
    It seems very strange that RTC throws this away.
    In 2013 they have allowed for text boxes to span columns - I just haven't been able to get it to work (though I haven't tried with the most recent build from MS - they've released at least 3 since RTM).

    If you check the online help for 2013, it has an example of spanning columns:

    But when you try to replicate it, you can get the text box spanning, but the size of the control doesn't change:

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