Changing item 'report' info with Attributes.

Hiya all,

I am using the 'comm' & 'note' attributes of items a lot to control
what is shown or printed.

Ideally, I would to only ever show the abbreviation of item
properties at design time and have the full description showing up
when printed.

So, to do this I need to enter stuff into the 'report' field of the
item.

The problem is that I do a lot of inheriting and augmenting of items.

What I want to know is why there are attributes for comments and
notes of an item but not the report.

At the moment I am having to have the full description only in the
notes (which prints out) and having the abreviations in tweaks that
use 'zamd' to add to the text at runtime.

Any suggestions?

Cheers, Chris.


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[Colen]

At 02:48 AM 6/2/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hiya all,
>
>I am using the 'comm' & 'note' attributes of items a lot to control
>what is shown or printed.
>
>Ideally, I would to only ever show the abbreviation of item
>properties at design time and have the full description showing up
>when printed.
>
>So, to do this I need to enter stuff into the 'report' field of the
>item.
>
>The problem is that I do a lot of inheriting and augmenting of items.
>
>What I want to know is why there are attributes for comments and
>notes of an item but not the report.

Almost certainly because nobody has ever needed it before.

Up until now, I don't believe item reports have really been used much. What
exactly are you trying to model using items in this fashion?

--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com


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