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    Adaptative field height for full content display

    Hi,

    As in a newspaper with many paragraphs of different length, we want to display some text field or other field type containing text or HTML, in a way that it displays fully the whole content of the field or even better, a kind of browse displaying several records of text, each one with its necessary hight in order not to hide some field parts because row hight is fixed.

    Of course, an obvious use of that is to put all web content in a database, so we can better manage multi-lingual translation and display.

    Is it possible? what could be the best way?
    A kind of browse, or a script that would create an HTML out of the needed records. (it this 2nd option, the problem is also to define on container on the page that is large enough)

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    Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

    Welcome to the Alpha message board!

    You're just creating HTML here. There's nothing special about whether it's A5 or not.

    If, for instance, you define an html table with rows and cells, you can let the cell "grow" to fit your needs. If you want to limit it's height or width, you can do that too. In fact, if you were to look at the source for the page containing our messages, you'd see what I mean. The cell simply grows to accomodate the amount of text we've typed.
    -Steve
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      #3
      Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

      I know HTML tables, but the goal is to display content from a database record, sometime not as a static content but as many dynamic content rows.

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        #4
        Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

        This is very easy to accomplish.

        If you look at www.asq-seattle.org, the event information in the center column, the FYI information below it, the announcements in the right column, and all the information in the "Leadership Pages" comes from databases, and all the blocks expand as necessary to provide for the space to fit.

        Pat
        Pat Bremkamp
        MindKicks Consulting

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          #5
          Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

          Your example is convincing, especially the 5 column Event grid, but what is the best way to do that?
          Last edited by EMHmark7; 04-15-2008, 11:18 PM.

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            #6
            Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

            What you need is to have a look at the Grid component, all this looks like standard grid features to me...

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              #7
              Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

              It's nothing more than placing xbasic such as this at the appropriate location to reference a memo field:

              txt = table.external_record_content_get("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\mytable","mymemofield")
              ?txt

              or

              lookup("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\mytable",".t.","mymemofield")

              And if get creative with the filter parameter, you can customize the text based on logged in user, day of week, news category, or any thing else.
              Steve Wood
              See my profile on IADN

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                #8
                Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                I am in a pre-buy phase. So, bottom of the line is that you guys tell me that browse allow adaptative row hight. (as we can see in the display of this thread)

                Tell me if I am wrong.

                Thanks for your help.

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                  #9
                  Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                  Originally posted by EMHmark7 View Post
                  I am in a pre-buy phase. So, bottom of the line is that you guys tell me that browse allow adaptative row hight. (as we can see in the display of this thread)

                  Tell me if I am wrong.

                  Thanks for your help.
                  A Browse is a desktop control, not a web form control. Generally in HTML, with is fixed but the height expands as needed.

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                    #10
                    Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                    So, I' am interested in web gids.

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                      #11
                      Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                      Originally posted by EMHmark7 View Post
                      So, I' am interested in web gids.
                      I didn't understand why you were mentioning Browses in that context :)

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                        #12
                        Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                        Pat what version of the WAS are you using for http://www.asq-seattle.org/ ? because the speed is great
                        Cheers
                        Mauricio

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                          #13
                          Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                          Thank you for noticing. I'm using Version 8.

                          The site is hosted on ZebraHost and we have a VPS with 1 gig ram. I have both non-SSL and SSL pages on the site, so I'm running two instances of the Alpha WAS, one for each domain.

                          Also, I've been converting the site to CSS pages, and I've found that to help speed because I can bypass components and just display the data directly. For example, on the index page, the event list is a grid component, but the FYI below it and the announcements on the right are read into variables from the tables in the head section, then displayed.

                          Pat
                          Pat Bremkamp
                          MindKicks Consulting

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                            #14
                            Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                            Ok thats great, so basically your saying that the less components you use to display data the better.
                            Cheers
                            Mauricio

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                              #15
                              Re: Adaptative field height for full content display

                              Originally posted by Pat Bremkamp View Post
                              I have both non-SSL and SSL pages on the site, so I'm running two instances of the Alpha WAS, one for each domain.
                              Pat,

                              Off topic, but... I am curious if there were any issues setting this up. Is there a login that spans both types of pages? I have a site with non-SSL and SSL pages, but the non-SSL are just initial landing pages in HTML that I serve through IIS.

                              Bill.

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