Thanks Josiah. I went to www.infopathdev.com and searched -- a 255-character
limitation is mentioned for fields in forms linked to Access dbs, so I'm
guessing the limitation also applies for fields promoted to SharePoint. I
took your advice and posted my question to the MS SharePoint community.
Rats!
Thanks again,
Mary
"Josiah Smith" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I've been able to format fields that display in SharePoint by simply using
> escape characters, such as the newline '\n', and tab '\t' excape characters.
> As far as the limitation of 255 characters, I believe that Greg Collins (from
> www.infopathdev.com) has stated that that is a limitation built into
> SharePoint itself and cannot be adjusted. If that still doesn't answer your
> question, try posting something about these character limits to a SharePoint
> newsgroup.
>
> HTH,
> Josiah
>
> "Mary L" wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows whether it's possible to promote an InfoPath
> > text field to the SharePoint form list such that it is not seen as a
> > SharePoint "single line of text" with a 255 character max. I have several
> > text fields on my form that can exceed 255 chars, but they are getting
> > truncated. I was hoping SharePoint would treat them as "multiple lines of
> > text."
> >
> > Any wisdom is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
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