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

[Michael B. <Mi...@di...>]

Hi Dieter:

What are the downsides of changing the Description field from text to 
textarea?  If ok, how would you recommend making the change?

Regards,

Mike Bush
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Digital Minds International
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> 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
> =========== On a clear disk you can seek forever ===========
> 
> 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
>>