Comments on: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Referencing Multiple Lines of Text Column

By: amit lohogaonkar

amit lohogaonkar — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:25:46 +0000

When we export this custom list using workflow to a word document template it still shows div tags inside the word document. Do you know any fix?

By: D. Finn-McArthur

D. Finn-McArthur — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:49:17 +0000

Dessie – very, very cool! I am just a regular gal working in a very large corporate environment who’s been asked to create and maintain a Share Point (no dev experience whatsoever) for my team who’s receiving support requests. We have severe Share Point limitations (due to corporate policies etc). This “trick” is one of the many things we’ve been looking for! Thank you, thank you!

By: Sachin Dubey

Sachin Dubey — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:51:49 +0000

Hey Thanks for the post Dessie. It helped me a lot. :D

However when I try to implement the formula under ‘Summary’ field it doesn’t shows me number characters as per my requirement. In my case I want to show only first 100 characters from the ‘DescriptionCalc’ field but its showing only 37 chars.

Don’t know whether issue with HTML format or something else. Please can anyone help me to get this resolved…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:17:04 +0000

Looks like the character count maxs out at around 1,800. HTML formatting (bold, hyperlinks, and the such add to this count as well so you need to watch this.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:59:30 +0000

I run into this problem too. I am not sure if its associated with the number of characters or the number of lines. I’ll do some testing to see which it is- and if so, what the limit is before it returns a #value.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:35:11 +0000

I keep running into a problem with the find and replace function in SP2007.

When I use a choice field with checkboxes and do a calculated field for a single line of text + choice field, I get the ;#(Selection;#.

Can someone give me more detailed steps as to how I can get rid of these?

I’m confused by the script conversion that Dessie referenced.

By: Dessie Lunsford

Dessie Lunsford — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:50:04 +0000

Chris,
You are correct, and I should have mentioned that instance at the time.

The “div” stuff shows up when you had added something to the field, then later removed it…its one of the characteristics of a rich text field (multiple lines of text field).

Good catch, and excellent job on the added chage to the formula!

- Dessie

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:14:31 +0000

Just in case someone runs into this BLANK column issue.

What I would like to show in my column list item, named appropriately [!], is an image if the column item is not blank. I have a problem, because I don’t think the item is blank or null.

What is the value of Description or DescriptionCalc when it is blank (apears blank)? I have tried ISBLANK[DescriptionCalc] and [DescriptionCalc] IS NULL but kept getting the same one result. So I reasoned it was not blank, but why?

So I clicked Actions | Edit in Datasheet. Lo and behold I saw %div%%/div% in the column list item. I went back to my formula and made the necessary changes.

% = either

=IF([!]=”%div%%/div%”,”",”%DIV%
%img title=’In Progress’ border=’0′ alt=’In Progress’ src=’/_layouts/images/ACA16.GIF’%%/DIV%”)

Hope this helps someone, like me, an admin with little programming (hacker) skills.

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:05:25 +0000

Should be visible now. Thanks for the note. — Mark

By: Dolphinfan

Dolphinfan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:06:45 +0000

Hello,

Maybe it’s just me or my bowser, but I am unable to see that script text that you say to copy. I see this:

“On the view page for our list, add in a CEWP (“Content Editor Web Part”), drag it down below the list web part, then open its source editor and paste in the following (*Note – I’ve stripped down the script from Christophe’s original version in order to meet the immediate needs for this list):

The script itself, simply finds the “TD” (table cell) tags on the page that contain the text…”

I’m guessing there is suppose to be some script right after “…for this list):”, but I just see a couple of blank lines. Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
GwK