Printing layouts single line field, multiple lines of text

[jnichel]

Hi,

Before I ask my question, I ask that you please bear with me. I'm a novice at best when it comes to Filemaker, but it was thrown into my lap when an employee left. "Hey, you're a Linux guy. Linux guys are smart, you do the Filemaker stuff."

We have a system here where customer service can print out a packing slip for an order. In this layout, every item ordered is on it's own line (line item). Among other things, the line item row contains the product name. This has been fine for the most part, but now we've added products which need more space to print out the product name (due to chosen options). In the product name field, if I have a name that is to long, it gets cut off; if the name has multiple lines (separated with a newline character), only the first line gets printed. Is there a way, when printing from this layout, I can have the product name field's height change dynamically to fit the content, so that all the content is printed out? Like the way an html table cell will do; expand the entire row's height to display/print the data in one cell. TIA

[grumbachr]

You can make the field larger to show as many rows as you need too. Then use the "Set Sliding/Printing" under the format menu to slide up and reduce the size of the enclosing part.

[Gytis]

Quite a beginner here. I have scoured manuals/forum w/ this thread being closest (I think) to what I am asking.

I want to print a table view with one top row which shows a series of field label texts. I've tried many things, including above suggestion, but cannot figure out how to increase single row height or wrap text. Not sure if I'm still thinking spreadsheet....

Picture speaks a thousand words.

[Raybaudi]

Hi

why not use a List View ?

There you can write your own labels, even different from the field names, and of how much rows you'll need.