how to add carriage return when set field's value action rule

Question

I am create a form, when user submit the form, there will be a line automatically added to the form text field like this:

concat(txtSignatures, "<br>", " submitted by ", string(userName()), " at ", string(now()))

such as "<br>" will work if it is html, or chr(13)+chr(10) or "\n" or something that can work?

Answer 1

Hi George,

Did you try it?

If you wanted to show it in page, I think the "\n" should not work.

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Answer 2

Hi George,

The external XML datasource trick http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2005/03/04/385577.aspx will work and let you insert line breaks.

 

In InfoPath, you need to use the Textbox control, and enable multi-line.

If you publish to web, it will use a TextArea element, which supports the line break.

You can set the textbox to read-only if you want to use it like a label.

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jliu - johnliu.net - sharepointgurus.net

Answer 3

Thanks John, it works.

To Kefang: yes, I tried, but it didn't work. The url provided by John Liu works.

Answer 4

Hi John,

 

Please help me, what do you mean by: "If you publish to web, it will use a TextArea element, which supports the line break."?

Adding the xml secondary data source having the code below, doesn't work on web based form.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<characters
    cr="&#xD;"
    lf="&#xA;"
    crlf="&#xD;&#xA;"
/>

What Im trying to do is replace a page break inside a multitext box to a symbol (i.e. #), but when publish in Sharepoint, the blank spaces are replaced instead of carriage returns.

 

Answer 5

Just tested this again and all seems to be in order.

http://johnliu.net/blog/2011/10/12/infopath-an-example-of-using-an-xml-file-for-special-charact.html

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jliu - johnliu.net - sharepointgurus.net

Answer 6

Hi,

 This doesn't appear to work in a Rich Text field with InfoPath 2010...
 Is there something I am missing?
  Thx,
    Barry