In our studio, we need coordinators and supervisors to get a good birds-eye view of all scenes per episode. Our notes for any particular shot vary drastically - some are just a quick sentence, while others are paragraphs. Sometimes there's one note and sometimes 12.

When we add new notes for the animators, we hit an "add note" button - which basically creates a new record in our notes table so it appears in the portal we set up per shot.

I know that FM9 has added anchors which allow people to resize any particular fields based on the size of their window, but is there any capability in 8.5 (what we're using) or 9 (which we'll be upgrading to) to have text fields auto stretch/shrink based on the text in it?

Here is how one of our views has been set up:

Any idea if this is possible in either 8.5 or 9? I know that sliding works great for us in printing reports, but why not in browse mode? :

Edited September 12, 200817 yr by Guest

In short, no.

I've seen tooltips used to display the whole text: hover the mouse over the field for a moment and a tooltip appears displaying all the text.

Otherwise use a cal field to List() the related notes records and display them in one large field.

Perhaps something like this could suit you:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/284897/

Note that you'll need version 9 to make this work on Windows, and a plugin to make it interactive.