Newbie Questions

Re: Increase/Limit Number of Characters in RichTextBox

SP2010Newbie — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:33:06 GMT

As per our business requirements we need Rich text box, users may not need images, tables or urls but they use font, color, bold in the text. I figured out the solution though. I came to know there is extra space that is being added once saved. So using the following validation i was able to over come it. string-length(normalize-space(.)) > 250

Re: Increase/Limit Number of Characters in RichTextBox

Anson Hidajat — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:23:01 GMT

Have you considered using a multiline text box instead? Rich text length can be inconsistent sometimes so using a multiline text box may be better for your scenario.

Increase/Limit Number of Characters in RichTextBox

SP2010Newbie — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:06:13 GMT

Hi there, I have a rich text box (with out table, images or hyperlinks). I validated the text box using string-length(.) > 250 Problem here is when i enter 250 chars and click save..it saves perfectly but when i edit the record it shows me the red ribbon (my custom message "more than 250 chars"). I added a new text box to the form to display the number of chars of the richtextbox and found out that number of chars increases by 4. ex: I enter 250 chars and click save. when i open the record it shows me up that the number of chars is 254. When i edit the filed and clear 1 char then it shows up to be 249. i.e it is adding 4 chars to the value. Please help me out here