O4WUpdate works for Textbox but not for Textarea.

UNIT field is textbox

DESC field is a textarea

O4WTextbox("","","","UNIT","UNIT")

O4WTextarea("","","","DESC","DESC")

UNITDATA='EA'

DESCDATA='This is the description'

O4WUpdate("UNIT,UNITDATA,textReplace)

O4WUpdate("DESC",DESCDATA,textReplace)

Can anyone see whats wrong?

Thanks!

O4WUpdate works for Textbox but not for Textarea.

UNIT field is textbox

DESC field is a textarea

O4WTextbox("","","","UNIT","UNIT")

O4WTextarea("","","","DESC","DESC")

UNITDATA='EA'

DESCDATA='This is the description'

O4WUpdate("UNIT,UNITDATA,textReplace)

O4WUpdate("DESC",DESCDATA,textReplace)

Can anyone see whats wrong?

Thanks!

Hi, Jackie. The O4WTextArea call has different parameters than the O4WTextbox call:

O4WTextBox(Text, size, maxlen, name, ID, StyleInfo)

O4WTextArea(Text, width, height, wrap, name, ID, StyleInfo)

When you created the DESC text area, I'm assuming you meant to name it and give it the ID of DESC, but you're off by one parameter, so it doesn't have an ID. Since there is no ID, it can't be changed by O4WUpdate.

If you changed your call to this:

O4WTextarea("","","","", "DESC","DESC")

(which has an extra set of quotes, forcing the text area to use the default value for "wrap") I think you'll find it works.

Hope that helps,

- Bryan Shumsky

Revelation Software, Inc.

Ok Thanks!

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