Not sure if this is a good place to ask but I’m about an hour into editing a Sharepoint for the first time, have zero prior knowledge on creating/editing Sharepoints, and I’m stuck trying to figure out how to wrap text to a new line in the description field of a particular column on my list.
We need the submitters to stop at a certain point and not touch the remaining fields, and the only way I can figure out how to do that is by adding a column description that tells them to stop. I want the description of that column to read as:
————-—STOP ————-—
Submitters stop here. Do not use the fields below, unless attaching images/files. The remaining fields are for macro champ use only.
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Instead of :
————-—STOP ————-—Submitters stop here. Do not use the fields below, unless attaching images/files. The remaining fields are for macro champ use only.———————————————-
Do I need to use JSON to achieve this? If so..what is the code I would need to use?
Also open to alternative solutions to create a line/stop/hide fields from them or something.
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ETA - photo of what my column formatting box looks like.
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ETA for further clarification -
The column in particular that I am trying to add the “stop” message to is actually named “Attachments included?” And has ‘yes’ or ‘no’ radio choice buttons. Then the description underneath that column says “submitters stop here, unless attaching images/files below.” This column, and it’s description, are hidden from the list overview and only visible when submitting a +New item.
The reason for doing this is because we have a handful of fields towards the end of the +New item submission form that we don’t want submitters to touch, as they are for the help desk agents to fill out only.
I don’t see any other way to add a stop/line or hide certain fields from the submitters (while still leaving them visible to the help desk team), so just trying to make this “stop” description look a little neater.
Format the column as shown below:
{
"$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
"elmType": "div",
"txtContent": " ————-—STOP ————-— \n\n Submitters stop here. Do not use the fields below, unless attaching images/files. The remaining fields are for macro champ use only. \n\n ———————————————",
"style": {
"width": "100%",
"font-weight": "bold"
}
}
Update:
This is the idea what I would like to get it. I am using Access-VBA but I am struggling to make series like this. Could you please give me an idea how to proceed it.
Thank you in advance.
EDIT 2
How to hide second form like this?
Edit 3
Ok let me make a clear picture.
Imagine that you have one form which requires to enter family member's data for each family. So different family has different number of members. Some family has 5, some has 4 ...
The default page shows only one form for one person so it's |family 1| = area. This form also requires to fill "name/last name/address/whatever..." = width/lenght/xxx for the first person. And then second one needs to be added with the same form "name/last name/address/whatever..." AGAIN by clicking "+" sign until it covers the whole members.
Then second family members also needs the same.
I have a drop-down menu in a form where you choose the year from pre-entered values. That field is used in different queries to display different data depending on the year you've chosen from the drop down menu ([Field]).
I would like to use this field in a query with the Like operator an a Wild card character.
I have the form open and the value of the [Form]![SubForm]![Field] equals for example 2018. If I try Like "*2018" it works fine.
I tried this but it doesn't work: Like "*[Form]![SubForm]![Field]"
Any ideas on how I could achieve this?
Your original code is taking the text as is.
Like "*[Form]![SubForm]![Field]" is searching for text that is like [Form]![SubForm]![Field].
You need to look for text that is like the contents of the control, not the reference to the control:
Like "*" & [Form]![SubForm]![Field]
The code above concatenates * with the value held in the control.
I'm quite new to VBA and I've been looking around but cannot seem to find a solution to my problem.
I have made a navigation form (frmNavigation) with 3 buttons, each referring to a different form, let's call them frm1, frm2 and frm3. In the navigationform the control buttons to switch between tabs are all named differently (btn1, btn2, btn3), but the subform that shows either frm1, frm2, or frm3 has the same name: “NavigationSubform” (this shows a different form depending on which tab is clicked on, based on the 'navagation target name' referring to frm1, frm2 and frm3).
When I want to refer to a textbox (txtBox1) on form 1 (first tab) and insert a value i can do this by:
Forms!frmNavigation!NavigationSubform.Form!txtBox1.Value = "insert awesome text"
But how would I refer to txtbox10 on the second tab (frm2)? Just using the following does not work:
Forms!frmNavigation!NavigationSubform.Form!txtBox10.Value
You then get the error 2465 (can't find the field).
I’ve been trying many different things, but can’t seem to get it right. So how do I refer to a textbox on a different tab than the first one?
Help us much appreciated!
Only one subform can be loaded at once. So you've just got to break this process into two steps.
Store the value from txtBox1 somewhere outside of the NavigationSubforms (a textbox on the parent form with visible = no, a global variable or a table works).
In frm2's On Load event, set txtbox10 to be the value you stored.
Just note, that you will need to add conditions in the On Load event if you want to avoid that textbox being set to an empty string or a wrong value if you have a setup where your filter is changing.
One of the many quirks of Reporting Services we've run across is the complete and utter lack of a CheckBox control or even something remotely similar.
We have a form that should appear automatically filled out based on information pulled from a database. We have several bit datatype fields. Printing out "True" or "False" just looks silly, as this is supposed to look like a form that has been auto-filled out, so we want to have a series of checkboxes and labels that are either checked or unchecked.
We are running SSRS 2005 but I'm not aware of SSRS 2008 having added a CheckBox control. Even if it did, we'd need to have an alternative for the time being. The best we've found so far is:
use Wingdings
use images
use text boxes with borders and print a blank/space or a capital X
All three approaches require IIF expression shenanigans.
The Wingdings approach seemed to work acceptably, and was the most aesthetically pleasing except that for whatever reason it didn't always print correctly. More importantly, PDF exports, also for whatever reason, converted all fonts (generally) to Arial and so we got funky letters instead of the Windings dingbats.
Images, being a pixel-based raster, don't do so well when printed along side vector stuff like text. Unless handled carefully, they tend to stretch, pixelate, and do other unprofessional looking things.
While these methods do work (some with limitations as mentioned above) none of them are particularly elegant.
Are we missing something obvious? Not so obvious? Does someone at Microsoft have a good reason why such a control was not provided in SSRS 2000, let alone 2 versions and 8 years later? This can't be the first time this issue has come up...
I, along with others in my shop, have used images, toggling the hidden attribute based on the field value (true or false). We haven't had any problems with blurring or scaling, unless we tried to increase the scale of the image beyond 100% obviously.
Another option I've used is similar to the wingdings idea, but I just use a plain old "X". On our forms at least, it is not uncommon for someone to use an X in a box instead of a check mark, so it looks completely acceptable. Plus, you don't have to worry about strange characters when printing.
As for why Microsoft does not include a checkbox control, I can't answer that as I've been wondering the same thing myself for a long time now.
I just wanna share the idea on this blog. SSRS: How to Display Checkbox on Report
First create a textbox
Then change the font family to Wingdings
Insert an expression on the textbox and write this expressions.
=IIF(Fields!Active.Value,chr(254),"o")
Fields!Active.Value could be anything from your query that should return a boolean value 1 or 0.
Then click Preview and see the checkbox ;)
More styles can be selected on the blog that I shared above.
Here is an example of my output
What I have used to display a check box (or ballot box):
1- create textbox (that will become your check box)
2- change font to Arial Unicode MS
3- in the expression window use:
ChrW(&H2611) for a filled-in checkbox
ChrW(&H2610) for an empty checkbox
Besides the different methods already presented, as of SQL Server 2008 R2 there's a built-in control that can be used for checkbox-alike functionality: the Indicator!
Have a look here for details on how to use it: https://web.archive.org/web/20190916105459/http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2012/08/04/displaying-checkboxes-in-an-ssrs-report/
To be able to use a field of type bit, you'll have to cast it to int first. This can be done either in the dataset query or by adding a calculated field to the dataset.
If you want the NULLs to come up as yellow, then you'll need to build the expression that way so it takes that requirement into account as well.
Here's a possible expression for a calculated field:
=Switch(
IsNothing(Fields!YourBoolean.Value), 50,
Fields!YourBoolean.Value = False, 0,
Fields!YourBoolean.Value = True, 100)
Depending on the meaning of your fields - is False good or bad - you may need to swap the zero and 100.
Another way to do thisd is go to "Placeholder properties" of TextBox and check Html - Interpret HTML tag as styles
Then in the Value - Expression put this line of code for checked:
="<font face=""Wingdings 2"" color=""green"">" & Chr(81) &"</font>" & "some other text"
Or this code sample for unchecked:
="<font face=""Wingdings 2"" color=""red"">" & Chr(163) &"</font>" & "some other text"
This way you can have checkbox and text in the same textbox.
Later edit:
If you are having problem displaying Wingdings 2 on Azure, then use Wingdings.
Apparently it works.
="<font face=""Wingdings"" color=""green"">" & Chr(253) &"</font>" & "some other text"
Or this code sample for unchecked:
="<font face=""Wingdings"" color=""red"">" & Chr(168) &"</font>" & "some other text"
You can also use a string calculated field like "[X]" or "[ ]". It's less pretty than the textbox with border but you don't have to put a specific control for the value and you can fill table or matrix with this.
At least there is some solution for the checkbox. I'm still looking for full justification for my text (In fact I'm looking for another solution than SSRS know).
ACCESS 97 could make this kind of thing but not SQL SERVER 2012.
I think there is a bug with SSRS and embedding font characters above 128 (some thing todo with ANSI encoding). Basically you can use 1-128 fine, the rest show up as tall rectangular blocks.
I like NY's idea of the textbox with a border and an optional X - this sounds simple and effective.
This is building on Dragos Durlut's answer. I don't have a high enough reputation to comment but I can answer...
I needed a checkbox as part of text that is passed as a parameter. The parameter contains HTML and is used in a placeholder set up just like Dragos suggests: HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles.
Instead of having to switch between the HTML and the strings, you can use the HTML Escape Codes (& + # + CharCode + ; --> ¨)
="<font face='Wingdings'>¨</font> Empty checkbox"
Since mine is a parameter, it just pass in the string:
<font face='Wingdings'>¨</font> Empty checkbox
If you need the checkbox selected, you would pass in either ý or þ instead:
<font face='Wingdings'>ý</font> filled with an x
<font face='Wingdings'>þ</font> filled with a checkmark