Multiline Elements display in workitem text

Tue Sep 18 03:34:55 EDT 2001

Thanks Kim, Paul, and Marc for your advice !

We had already been experimenting with the ## option as described in the
documentation. The ## option appears to only work if the whole of the multiline
element is displayed. eg. If the multiline element has 5 attributes, all the 5
elements are displayed one after the other.

Our requirment is to only display some of the attributes of the multiline
element as columns down the screen, with a heading line above it. The ## option
only displays the first line in this case.

In the meantime we have done some further investigations. We created another
multiline element in the object to use for display purposes. This multiline
element has one attribute (a text string). The attribute is built by reading the
relevant fields from the original multiline element, and formats those fields
into a text string with the appropraite spacing between the fields. This is done
for each line in the multiline element. Before doing this for the data lines,
the first line of the multiline element is built as a heading line, again with
the appropriate amount of spacing between the columns.

We tried this approach in a notification. We looked at the notification via the
GUI. The columns didn't appear to be displayed with the correct spacing between
them. Double-clicking on the notification looked better however appeared in a
window which didn't look like the other notifications in the inbox.

The upshot is that this workaround could suffice with some further work. We
haven't done the autoforwarding to Lotus Notes yet, which may muck up the
formatting further.

Any further comments would be appreciated please.

Regards,
Branco Marcina

ps. I forgot to mention that we are on version 4.6C, sorry.

Kim Schell <Kim.Schell at toyota.com.au> on 18/09/2001 08:30:59

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Subject:  Re: Multiline Elements display in workitem text

I have used this ## method, however I've noticed the font and font size changes
when you do this.
Which would give Branco 2 problems, firstly, It'll be unreadably small and
secondly it won't allign with the headers (unless they were inside the multiline
element).

Does anybody know how to solve these two (esp. first) problems, it would also
help me out also.

-Kim

Mark Pyc Workflow <pyc_workflow at hotmail.com> on 18/09/2001 12:05:22 AM

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Subject:  Re: Multiline Elements display in workitem text

G'day Branco,

I don't have an example in front of me, but I'm pretty certain that if you
use ## (hash hash) after a multiline element it will place each entry on a
new line.

Have fun,
Mark

>From: Branco Marcina <Branco_Marcina at national.com.au>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Multiline Elements display in workitem text
>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:35:30 +1000
>
>Hello,
>I have a requirement to display a multiline element in aongst other
>workitem
>text as in the following example.
>
>...
>...
>Fixed text at the start of the workitem
>...
>...
>...
>Date1            Date2           Text
>11.09.2001   12.09.2001  Text field line 1
>13.09.2001   13.09.2001  Text field line 2
>...
>...
>...
>More fixed text at the end of the workitem
>...
>
>
>The first line (Date 1 Date2 Text) is a fixed heading line. The subsequent
>lines
>are attributes of the multiline container element. In this example, there
>are
>two data lines to display. I would wish the text to display no matter how
>many
>element lines there are 2, 3, 4 etc.
>
>Can anyone help in this regard? Much appreciated if you can !
>
>
>
>Regards,
>Branco Marcina
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