Larry,

Thank you for responding..

Mine is on the right of the field too in exactly the same spot that it is when 
its visible.. What I meant was look at the left hand side of the screen shot 
(left of the Properties pane).. On the screen shots that I tried to attach the 
field was on the left of the Properties pane....

So basically we are experiencing the exact same issue and you being on Patch 2, 
shows that this issue wasn’t resolved for at least those couple of patches – I 
am still on the base release version of 7.6.03 at this site I am working at..

So this also shows that its not just my system that’s somehow hosed (which 
often is the case with all the stunts I try – just kidding).. both of us are 
seeing the exact same issue..

I submitted a ticket to BMC yesterday, and if you intend to do the same, maybe 
we can exchange ticket numbers and ask them to relate the two so it starts 
getting a higher priority to get fixed....

Joe

From: L G Robinson 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:52 AM
Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: I think I just found a sweet bug on character fields that are Edit 
Masked...

** 
Hi Joe,

I was able to reproduce the behavior that you describe below on my 7.6.03 Patch 
002 201107191530 system. The only difference I see from what you described is 
the "invisible" expand box that you described as being on the left. Mine is on 
the right... just where the "real" expand box would be, if it was there.

Client is WUT 7.6.04 SP1.

Hope this is helpful.
Larry


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote:

  ** 
  I used the Dev Studio of the same version as the AR Server to create that 
field and make changes to it .. I am on 7.6.03 (no patch). My WUT and Dev 
Studio too are on the same version no patch.

  I’m going to try to attempt to attach 5 screen shots and hope they make it 
through to the list. I’ll also take the liberty to email them to you Doug, and 
Jason Miller and Keith Sinclair, as I am expecting the attachments to not make 
it to the list..

  The property on the dev studio is un-editable once set to edit masked.. 
however it’s the behavior of the field both on the dev studio as well as the 
WUT that is a concern.... Hopefully the screen shots will help explain what 
words may not explain that clearly..

  Find 5 screen shots attached in a zip file called Bug.zip

  EditMask01.gif
  This is where I attempted to create a character field of length 20 with some 
Default value “New Field Edit Mask” on it. The Expand Box as you can see at the 
time of creation is Default, and the Display Type is Edit... Notice the default 
value on the field as well as the non existence of an expand box.. With all 
these settings I saved the form.. The field got created.....

  EditMask02.gif
  Here is where I changed the Display Type to Edit Masked and immediately as 
Jason pointed out on the list, the Expand Box gets grayed out, and its value 
changes to Hide. Also notice the field on the Dev Studio, where the default 
value gets masked to asterix’s.. Also notice that there is no Expand Box... So 
far very good....

  EditMask03.gif
  Here is where things start to get ugly.. I changed the length of the field 
from 20 to 255. Notice that the Expand Box attribute is still grayed out. And 
that its value is Hide. Great (just as what Jason said about 7.6.04)... But 
take a look on the left hand side. There is an ‘invisible’ expand box on the 
field on the dev studio itself.. I’m kind that way, and that doesn’t bother me 
really as it appears like the field is still masking its contents with all 
asterix’s which is all I want – I don’t really care whether or not the Expand 
Box shows despite it being set to Hide and its attribute grayed.... I saved 
these settings.. With the settings saved with the field length at 255, lets 
look at what we see on the WUT...

  EditMask04.gif
  When the focus is on another field, things look ‘almost’ good on the field 
that has its Edit Mask attribute turned on.. So long as the focus is not on the 
Edit Masked field..... I say ‘almost’ because you already see the first signs 
of trouble. The expand box is clearly visible...

  EditMask05.gif
  Here you can see that the moment the focus is on the edit mask field, I can 
see the text as clear text. The mask disappears..

  I haven’t yet tested this on the web as I just noticed this like 5 minutes 
before posting to the list.

  Cheers

  Joe

  PS: On my first attempt, the attachments didn’t get through.. and it rejected 
my posting.. so attempting it without attachments and if you are interested in 
the attachments to make sense of this email. please request them from me and I 
will be more than happy to send....

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