Entering a field in IWP to grap something to paste, scrambles every RTF into field default...

[Søren Dyhr]

...so what you later paste lacks style. Alright the easy answer is to let the user grap either a <> formatted or a calc'field instead of real data, and prevent IWP from going into edit mode.

But what if the text is lenghty and requires a scrollbar attached to the field?

Well a portal without outlines, with a box around as frame can make the illusion perfect, since we are making a list of mergefields appear in an invisible portal are we forcing the cgi to make coherent html/css, as long as we have no texts appearing on either side of the portal are we in the clear to mark excerpts of the text show splitted up in lineslices, for further pasting in RTF.

The splitting of the text into related records, could be done in various ways, but I'll suggest that you pick one of these CF's here:

http://www.clevelandconsulting.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=230

...and uses it in a repeating calc'field exploiting Get(CalculationRepetitionNumber) as well as MiddleValues( to make each repetition a line of the original text. Next step is to import into the portalrow table while splitting into individual records (remember to import the recordID as well)

Thats it, and as bonus won't the textfield illusion have more than scroll bar ...which in my humble opinion adds to the simplicity of the layout.

Now this idea isn't much worth if you would try to enter styled text into your solution from a web browser... IWP is not up to it, and this tip merely solved a problem where users would like to grap styled text from IWP.

--sd