SID-00931: Newlines in form fields break %SEARCH result tables

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	v5.10.1
Category:	CategorySearch	Server OS:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS	Last update:	15 years ago

How can I keep newlines in form fields from breaking tables in formatted searches?

I would like the resulting table in some instances to show the whole text of the field in a table and in other instances, only the first 20 characters.

For the latter, I've tried $formfield(Fieldname, 20, ...) in the format parameter, but that form of $formfield doesn't seem to be working, nor does $formfield(Fieldname, 20) do anything different than $formfield(Fieldname).

For removing the newlines, I've tried %CALC{$SUBSTITUTE($formfield(Fieldname), ... }%, but the newlines in the result of $formfield(Fieldname) seem to kill the %CALC statement.

I've also tried %META, but it doesn't seem to work inside a %SEARCH format.

Suggestions?

-- DavidSturman - 2010-08-08

Discussion and Answer

Use newline="%BR%" in SEARCH. Details in VarSEARCH.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-09

Wonderful. Thank you. That worked. I'm not sure why I didn't see it before, given how I thought that I carefully looked through the documentation.

Any idea about why $formfield(Fieldname, 20, ...) doesn't seem to work?

-- DavidSturman - 2010-08-09

-- DavidSturman - 2010-08-09

Known issue, TWikibug:Item6305. TWiki is open source software, your help in bug fixing is appreciated.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-09

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