Description greater than 250 characters

tradewinds · 2006-03-12

Hello,

Is there a way to get a 300 character text description field on the item card ? This field needs to be displayable and editable on the item card, and would print on orders.

I looked at standard Navision text fields but they have a maximum limit of 250 characters. I also looked at BigText, but I understand it doesn't display on the item card.

Is anyone aware of other ways to handle this (other than having multiple description fields) ?

Thank you
TW

ara3n · 2006-03-12

You can split the text into two fields.
I would create two new fields and split the next into the two fields.
Increasing description fields will be a lot of work, and even more work when you upgrade.

essar-web · 2006-03-12

tradewinds wrote:

Hello,

Is there a way to get a 300 character text description field on the item card ? This field needs to be displayable and editable on the item card, and would print on orders.

I looked at standard Navision text fields but they have a maximum limit of 250 characters. I also looked at BigText, but I understand it doesn't display on the item card.

Is anyone aware of other ways to handle this (other than having multiple description fields) ?

Thank you
TW

Hello....

You can use a BLOB-Field.

essar-web

ara3n · 2006-03-12

essar-web as tradewinds mentioned, you cannot display the value of blob or bigText. That is why I suggested using tow fields instead of one.

johnson_alonso · 2006-03-13

I think there is no other way except make a multiple description field and there will be many changes in all tables according to the qty of text changed afterwards because exceeded the standard text has fixed by navision. several times ago, I have added qty of text of description field in the item table but then I have to change all description fields in all tables used it. I never use BLOB-Field because I think it will be the same.

rgds,
Johnson Alonso

"strength beyond strength"

kriki · 2006-03-13

tradewinds wrote:

I looked at standard Navision text fields but they have a maximum limit of 250 characters. I also looked at BigText, but I understand it doesn't display on the item card.

You might create a new field as BigText and when displaying a record in form, convert it into a text-variable (max size 1024) to show it, edit it and when saving it, putting it again into the BigText. But you won't be able to search on it.
I think the solution given by ara3n is the best one:creating 2 new fields where to put the text in. In the the existing Description, you can put some short description. But DON'T enlarge the existing description.

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