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Count characters in Text Field
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Count characters in Text Field -
11-19-2006
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Hi Everyone Is there a way to count characters in a text field in and display it in real time? Such as in an SMS text field which needs to be 160 characters or less? Many thanks BA |
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"brad anderson" <whaletx (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> schreef in bericht news:C187287E.33E7D%whaletx (AT) hotmail (DOT) com... Hi Everyone Is there a way to count characters in a text field in and display it in real time? Such as in an SMS text field which needs to be 160 characters or less? using the helpfile, looking under text functions you would have found Length The number of characters in the specified text, including all spaces, numbers, and special characters. |
"real time". There's no way to have a constantly updating number as you
type, so you'd have to use the Length function via a script attached to
a "Check Length" button ... or a Calculation field which will update
when you stop editing the record.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
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In article <4560f682$0$55358$dbd4b001 (AT) news (DOT) wanadoo.nl>, "Ursus" ursus.kirk (AT) wanadoo (DOT) nl> wrote: "brad anderson" <whaletx (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> schreef in bericht news:C187287E.33E7D%whaletx (AT) hotmail (DOT) com... Hi Everyone Is there a way to count characters in a text field in and display it in real time? Such as in an SMS text field which needs to be 160 characters or less? using the helpfile, looking under text functions you would have found Length The number of characters in the specified text, including all spaces, numbers, and special characters. Except that you can'ty use that to display the number of character in "real time". There's no way to have a constantly updating number as you type, so you'd have to use the Length function via a script attached to a "Check Length" button ... or a Calculation field which will update when you stop editing the record. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
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He could, if he was really desperate, create a script that updates every second. Start it, start typing and stopping it (as a first step in a script for his 'next step to take' action) Which is not quite state of the art, and potentialy could lead to other problems. |
entry awful and highly annoying to do - when the script is running the
computer "forgets" what you're typing.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
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In article <4561a678$0$18239$dbd41001 (AT) news (DOT) wanadoo.nl>, "Ursus" ursus.kirk (AT) wanadoo (DOT) nl> wrote: He could, if he was really desperate, create a script that updates every second. Start it, start typing and stopping it (as a first step in a script for his 'next step to take' action) Which is not quite state of the art, and potentialy could lead to other problems. Ewwww... that's the silly old "Pause [1sec]" script. It makes data entry awful and highly annoying to do - when the script is running the computer "forgets" what you're typing. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
Thanks guys....Yes I did check the help and try that first. Thanks for the
replies.
BA
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