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Chuck Tumbleston

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5/9/2011 4:47 PM

In Design Studio I'm using a TextArea in place of a Text box for a 'comment' field on data brought in from the application. If I edit that data within the textarea by changing a word or character within a line of comments, everything after the new word is truncated. If I change the control back to being a text box I don't have this error. Is this an issue with the TextArea control? Has anyone run into this and found a workaround?

Ragu Raghavan

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12/19/2014 12:30 PM

Chuck, did you find a solution for this? I am on 9.01 Design Studio and have the same issue with textarea. Does not matter, if I check the values on On_Blur or on_BeforeTransaction, if the textarea has been edited with backspace or delete, the results are truncated. Thanks.

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12/23/2014 10:16 PM

when I try var vCmt = lawForm.getFormValue("textarea1",0), it messes up .

I changed it to
var vObj = lawForm.getFormElement("textarea1",0);
var vCmt = vObj.value

Seems to work ok, regardless of backspace or delete or any special characters.

AlexW

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3/12/2015 12:11 AM

I too am having problems populating textarea object. I have tried these three methods...to no avail.
[CODE] var vdata = "mytext"; alert(vdata); lawForm.getFormElement("textarea1").value = vdata; lawForm.setElementValue("textarea1",vdata,0); lawForm.setFormValue("textarea1", vdata); [CODE]

None of the above methods has worked for me. Any help is appreciated!
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3/12/2015 5:40 AM

Option 3 - setFormValue - should be working.