Report column wrapping for continuous text
Please fix it so that column wrapping in reports works for all of the content including continuous text. Currently when we set a column to wrap, information such as unusually long document numbers or descriptions that are one long character string do not wrap. This forces us either to have to reformat the report for that one time or export to Excel and reformat there if we want the report to print on one page with all of the information included.
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23 May
John Michael AdminHi Karen,
Thanks for the submission. Can you provide a couple real world examples to help us understand? A document number with no spaces is reasonable, but just trying to understand a description with no spaces? Thank you! -
24 May
KarenHi John - thanks for your help and attention to my request!
Sure - it's an unusual occurrence for sure to have this issue in the description - it's much more common with the document number - but I've seen semicolons instead of spaces when entering a description that listed several things. For example, for an office supply purchase they enter "6Staplers;4paper;8binders;12keyrings;12nametags." Or they'll have a long string within the description where there's a hyphen or slash used: "J Smith Ck#123, $500pgmA/$1000pgmB/$500pgmC" or "5 laptops/model#ABC25862/256G."
We set our description field widths as wide as we can - a common width is 1.25. This also sometimes happens with other fields such as short titles for account codes when we're trying to save space. We usually have a lot of fields we are trying to fit into a report, and it's frustrating when we are limited with what we can include because we have to widen columns due to the occasional longer text string.