Re: Pasting text into SQL-Ledger's invoice description field

[Dieter S. <dsi...@sq...>]

The prevent the lines after the carriage return from disappearing
change the description field to a textarea.


Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
DWS Systems Inc.     Accounting Software       Fax: 478-5281
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Michael Bush wrote:

> Hey Everyone:
> 
> My company uses SQL-Ledger for billing consulting time and we like to 
> include details of what work was performed.  We have implemented a request 
> tracking system called Request Tracker (great program!  
> http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/features.html  The new version supports 
> PostgreSQL).  Any way... we have noticed that if you paste anything into the 
>  Description field, such as a paragraph and the paragraph has a carriage 
> return in them, only the first line of the paragraph is pasted.  If you 
> removed the carriage returns, it will paste fine.  Kind of a pain when you 
> have 6-8 pages of transactions to invoice out and each transaction has a 
> paragraph of text.
> 
> Any recommendation on how to overcome this issue short writing a Perl 
> script to remove carriage returns.  Dieter might want to consider an 
> interface with Request Tracker for importing data ;-).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike Bush
>