Variable inputs

[greyhound]

Hi,

When I look at the default catalog the ProductDescription variable is displayed as a mulitrow input.

Firstly I cannot find the variable anywhere in the library and when I add new variables I only get single line text boxes in the designer. How can I go about modifying these?

Thanks in advance.

Ben

[leehack]

You can't compare the operation of system standard variables on items like product descriptions with your own created variables. Product descriptions input is written into the main software as it is a key area on every single site. Perhaps you could explain what you are trying to do as your post seems a little odd and you might be missing something already available. HTML naturally wraps onto 2 or more lines if it is longer than one line, unless you have some kind of constraint in place.

[TraceyHand]

I think Ben means the actual input box for the variables.
ie..the standard ProductDescription input (and the Extended info one) is a text BOX...a decent sized, expandable with the 'zoom' function, space to entering text whereas custom text variables (which could, feasibly, be intended to be several lines or a block of text) are a single, unexpandable line.

It would be nice to be able to give some of these custom text variables some decent input space but, knowing Actinic's tendancy to make our workspace as small and difficult to manage as possible, it's not likely to happen any time soon

[greyhound]

Both posts are partially right.

I would like to have WYSIWYG facility on a custom variable (ie. client can pop a line of text in and make it bold) After extensive looking around I have come to the conclusion that I would have to write something in PHP to "add" some custom funcionality to my dev software.

Secondly, if any html were to be added in to the existing custom variable text inputs it has to be on one line. It would be useful to have the ability when defining the variable to have either a text box or multirow text box.

Thanks all for taking the time to reply.

[NormanRouxel]

I've been nagging for a multi-line text entry capability on user Variables for some time. Even the right-click / Zoom capability that's on the larger Actinic fields would have done.

If you wanted your user to add sinple HTML, then you can have this pass through unaltered in the layouts by adding encoding="none" to the variable definition or placemarker. However, it might be better to do this with PHP as an end user inadvertantly leaving off a closing > could break the subsequent code.