You're close, but no cigar yet. You can't directly enter the codes into the fields in your 'Codes' panel. This is because DP doesn't recognize the characters you entered as codes, it treats them internally as characters.
Instead, you have to create a merge file in WP which has the bold on/off and underline on/off codes spanning your end field codes. Something like this: [Bold On][End Field][HRt] [Bold Off][End Field][HRt] [Underline On][End Field][HRt] [Underline Off][End Field][HRt] [End Record][HPg] Now you import this (via Ctrl-F5) into your 'Codes' panel. Try that and see how it works. Oh, and by the way: in the old STE Manager database the code fields were formatted as A1A1::N so you couldn't accidentally mess them up. There was also a dummy field that you landed on when you went into the panel that didn't do anything other than give the cursor a field to land on. You might need something like this in your 'Codes' panel. Tim Rude ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Iannantuoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Bold Text question > Hi Tim, > > I tried something along those lines but without success - maybe I did > something wrong! > > I set up a Codes Panel with four A1A1 fields for Bold On, Bold Off, U/L > On & U/L Off plus a Link Field which just contained the words "Codes > Link" - this had an Index. > > In the Contacts Panel, I created a Link Field again containing just the > word "Codes Link" and a Link to the Codes Panel - this all worked and I > could go through the link correctly from the Contacts Panel to the Codes > Panel and see the characters in the various fields. > > In the Contacts Panel, I modified my conditional text field formula from > just "Payment Overdue" to Bold On Code "Payment Overdue" Bold Off Code > - the codes being the appropriate fields accessed through the link to > the Codes panel but all that showed up were the characters from the Bold > On & Bold Off codes with my other text. > > The way I found the codes to enter for the various functions in the > Codes Panel was as follows: > Created a WordPerfect file (in my case WP9) with well separated > words that were Bolded & UnderLined. > Saved this file as a WP4.2 file . > Opened this file in Office Editor 3.1 and looked at the codes > surrounding the Bolded & Underlined words. > Entered the decimal equivalent of these codes into the appropriate > field of the DP Codes Panel using Alt-Numkeys. > > The codes were: Bold On: 9D Hex > Bold Off: 9C Hex > U/L On: 94 Hex > U/L Off: 95 Hex > > Michael > > Tim Rude wrote: > > >Hi Michael, > > > >First of all, you can never have bold or underline codes inside a formula. > >It seems like it would work, and it looks like it would work, but it won't > >work. As you see, it kills the formula. :-( > > > >There is no *simple and straightforward* way to bold or underline text in a > >field via a formula. There is a very convoluted method for doing it which > >was demonstrated in the old STE Manager database. As I recall it involved > >creating a panel to hold the Bold On/Off and Underline On/Off codes in a > >series of A1A1 fields. The fields were then populated by importing a > >carefully crafted merge file created in WordPerfect. You then had to link to > >this panel and concatenate these fields with your data to get the codes into > >the field via the formula. All in all a clever workaround but a real pain in > >the pumpkin to implement. > > > >It would be nice if we had functions like bold[text] or underline[text] to > >do this, or if the bold and underline codes inside a formula definition > >worked but . . . > > > >How badly do you want to do this? > > > >Tim Rude > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Michael Iannantuoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Dataperfect Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:57 AM > >Subject: [Dataperf] Bold Text question > > > > > > > > > >>In the Contacts panel of my Advertisers/Subscribers for our Village > >>Magazine, I have an A7A2::C field which is normally blank but displays > >>"Payment Overdue" when certain conditions in the linked Payments panel > >>are met: I set this up by entering the formula for testing the > >>conditions and the text message in the Define Field - Define Field > >>Formula (Option 2) screen and it works fine with plain text but I would > >>like this text to be Bold so that it stands out and here I have a problem. > >> > >>If in the Define Field - Define Field Formula (Option 2) screen if I > >>select the text message, or even just part of it, and press F6, it shows > >>up as Bold on screen but when I exit this screen, I get a "Word Not > >>recognised" error message from DP. When I press enter or click on "OK", > >>I am returned to the previous Define Field screen and can return to the > >>panel but the Field does not display at all under any conditions. Going > >>back into Define Field - Define Field Formula (Option 2) and deleting > >>the Bold codes corrects this but I am again left with plain text. > >> > >>I am obviously doing something wrong but I am not sure what. Is there a > >>way to achieve what I want? > >> > >>TIA > >> > >>Michael > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Dataperf mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Dataperf mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
