InfoPath Dev

Hi.

I have 2 textboxes, one for commentarys (txtCommentary) and one for the commentary history (txt_History). When the users press a button, it takes the commentary and puts it into txt_History with this rule: concat("some text "; txtCommentary).

Is it possible to bold the text from the txtCommentary box ind the txtHistory, so its more like concat("Some text "; txtCommentary)?

No, there isn't a way to make just part of a text box or expression box bold (unless it's a rich text box, which is a whole separate story).

Might it work to have the text "Some text" in an expression box next to another bolded expression box with the saved value from txtHistory, to simulate the actual contents of txtCommentary?

If I change them to rich textboxes, how can it be done then?

 Does the approach I suggested not work for you?

Hi again.

Im not sure, that i understand the solution you suggested?

Hi mhoel,

Not sure if I can explain it any different....

Jimmy:

Might it work to have the text "Some text" in an expression box next to another bolded expression box with the saved value from txtHistory, to simulate the actual contents of txtCommentary?

Have 2 Expression boxes on your form side by side...

Expression box #1, set the XPath formula to point to your txtCommentary textbox, and set box#2 to txtHistory.  Bold the contents of txtHistory expression and your good to go.  Not sure if its the look you are looking for.. if text box #1 text is too long, it'll wrap, if its too short, it'll leave a big gap between the history box.

 I tried toying with the rich text box a bit, when I concatenated the 2 fields, it never carried over the text formating from the rich text formating, just the actual values.  Was hoping I could have concatenated in some HTML or special flags to merge the 2, but that didnt' work either.  ie (Concat(txtCommentary, '{strong}', txtHistory, '{/ strong }.

 I've been trying to do something simliar, solution might be the same for both.  I was wanting to put in a carriage return in between history inserts so they'll be on seperate lines..  ie.. concat(Field1, "\newline", Field2).. but have been unable to find a solution for this either.

Greg

Hi.

Its not really what i want, it should look like this.

Some text + date + user

     Comment

Some new text + date + user

     another Comment

And then i should be able to use this data in sharepoint designer for my workflow.

About the carriage return thing, i found a couple of years ago a site where they had a solution for that. You create a file named Characters.xml and paste this into it and save it.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<characters
    cr="&#xD;"
    lf="&#xA;"
    crlf="&#xD;&#xA;"
/>

Then in Infopath, you create a dataconnection where you receive from this XML document.

When you need a carriage return, you choose this dataconnection and choose the CRLF. It works for me.

Thanks mhoel,

 I never got it to work yet, might just take me some more tinkering..  Thank you though for getting me on the right track..

 I was wondering, could we do the same type of thing for the bold thing?  Add a new entry into your xml characters file.. find the string combination for bold?

Anyway, just a thought.. might not be possible..

Greg

Ammendment:

Just found this website, it explains how to add HTML tags to a rich text box..  You could render the html bold (strong) tags into the rich text box, might work for you.

http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/how-to-render-html-in-rich-text-box-infopath.htm