Hi all,

I want users to be able to send written "communications" (e-mails and letters) to contacts within the database.

Such communication frequently includes indented/bulleted/numbered text.

I have succeeded with HTML emails (using a plug-in) but I want the user to have the choice of sending as a letter (or indeed a plain text e-mail)

My problem is how to deal with indented and/or numbered lists

At the moment:

The "body text" is entered into a field called "body text"

When the user wants a list to appear the enter the text "list1" (they can enter up to 10 lists eg by entering list2 list3 etc)

The "lists" are entered into an additional repeating field "Lists[1-10]" - the beauty of this is that it also allows lists within lists)

(For the HTML version I build the final HTML using a substitute calc and then also substituting in the line item html tags with some clean up at the end of the calc)

But how can I achieve this for a normal FM report layout? - in particular I am worrying about proportional fonts screwing up left alignment and being able to deal with sub lists (ie requiring further indenting)

I can't see a portal approach being the answer but then I am not that clever lol - but I do seem to remember about not being allowed to have portals within portals etc

Many thanks

Simon

D'uh - I have just discovered the paragraph formatting and set tabs menu items - sorry guys : :

unfortunately getascss ignores these tab stops - but I have already solved the html bit

So will now try with using global(s) for different control tab stops and parsing the body and list fields using these globals (a la html tags)

cheers

Simon