Can anyone tell how to create bullets for dynamically fetched Data.?

[varavoorvishnu]

Hi All...
I need to show the data in the given fashion below...

Description1:
--------------
*Explanation1
*Explanation2

Description2:
--------------
*Explanation1
*Explanation2

Description3:
--------------
*Explanation1
*Explanation2

I need to display as shown above all the 3 Descriptions with the Explanations highlighted as Bullets as shown with (*) asterisk.
The Explanations will be increasing data taken dynamically from Database.

Can anyone tell me how to create bullets for the Explanations.
Please suggest.

 

[Naith]

Forgive me if I don't understand what you mean, but if the Explanation lines are appearing in the details section - all of which have to be bulleted, I'm thinking you could simply create a formula along the lines of:

"* " + {YourField}

and place the formula in an area of the report which makes it appear indented.

Naith

 

[rosemaryl]

Dear Varavoorvishnu:

I do not know whether your explanations are memo fields so I will suggest the following which does not concatenate the bullet to the explanations field.

Also, this allows you to place the field with explanations so that it formats nicely (indented, flush left) the way we typically see paragraphs with bullets.

The easiest thing to do is to create the following formula and place it next to the field that represents the Explanation in the detail section:

//begin formula. Make sure youformat field as HTML
//Right click field after insert into detail line
//choose paragraph formatting tab.
//select html
&quot;<font face = webdings font size = 1&quot; &
&quot;=&quot;
//formula end.

This will create a very nice bullet. If you simply need an asterisk. Change the formula to:

&quot;* &quot;


Hope this Helps,

ro
Rosemary Lieberman
rosemary@microflo.com,

http://www.microflo.com

Microflo provides expert consulting on MagicTSD and Crystal Reports.

 

[goranm]

Hi !

Another way to do it is to create a formula like this:

Chr(108)

Insert the field just like Rosemary suggested and choose &quot;Wingdings&quot; as font for the field.

That will also give you a bullet.

/Goran

 

[varavoorvishnu]

Thank you everyone for the Help that u had extended .

Vishnu