Text Fields - Horizontal Scroll Bars

[NYPoke]

Last night, I was adding some data, from SQL Server, which is broken down by line-items.  It can get pretty long, into 300-400 byte range.  Longer at times.  A Notes List mostly.

 

I went to add a Horizontal Scroll Bar to the Text Field &...nada.  Am I missing something or do we honestly not have an option for Horizontal Scrolling for Text Fields in FM 14?

 

Otherwise, still loving FM 14.

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Text in a field wraps to the width of the field - so there is nothing to scroll to in the horizontal direction.

[NYPoke]

I know it wraps.  I don't want it to wrap.  The data is almost unreadable.  I seem to recall this being an option in older versions, but I might be remembering another product. 

 

So we can't get Horizontal Scrolling in FileMaker (14 anyway)?  That is sad.

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5 minutes ago, NYPoke said:

I don't want it to wrap.

I don't think you can change that (or could in previous versions).

I am not sure why you would want to either - but if you do, consider using a web viewer to display the data.

[NYPoke]

Yes, thank you.  The Web View would be the only other option that I can think of.  However, this process moves pretty fast.  Don't want to slow it down.

 

We can display the data with a Portal.  However, other than this scrolling, it was working really well, by using a single Text Field.  I'll mess around with it some more.

 

Again, thanks for confirming.

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7 minutes ago, NYPoke said:

The Web View would be the only other option that I can think of.

There may be others - but you haven't told us what this is really about.

In general, I find that as a user I don't want to scroll. Show me the essence and allow me to drill into detail, if I choose to.

[NYPoke]

I used the Indent Feature.  The text is readable now.  It is rare, but in this case, the Horizontal Scroll would have been very useful.  I can move forward with the Indent though.