[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

[Whalen, Liam]

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> On Behalf Of John Morris
> Sent: October 26, 2011 19:47
> To: Evergreen General
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports
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> I currently truncate long fields like title or author on 
> reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format.  Can't 
> find a way to do that with the generator.  

The tabular form of output that Evergreen uses for its reports is an HTML table, so, as long as you don't have extremely long words, the table will break up long fields into multiple lines. 

Liam

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