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Long Form Display - Description

Jan 20, 2006, 5:00 PM
jimogrady
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Long Form Display - Description
I am using the long / short display mod - Is it possible to display the first few words of a field? For example, my short display shows - NAME, COMPANY, DESCRIPTION - the DESCRIPTION is quite long - my client wants to see just the first few words or characters to jog his memory before clicking to entire record.

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Jim
Jan 20, 2006, 6:23 PM
JPDeni
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Jan 20, 2006, 6:23 PM
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After

Code:
my (%rec) = @_;




add

Code:
$shortdesc = substr($rec{'DESCRIPTION'},0,10);




Change the 10 to the number of characters you want to display. Then, where you want the description to print out, use $shortdesc instead of $rec{'DESCRIPTION'}.


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Jan 20, 2006, 6:46 PM
jimogrady
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Thanks! I appreciate your time,

Jim