I have a layout from Table A which displays 3 rows of Table B in a portal. 2
of the fields displayed in the portal are text comment fields. The rows of
the portal are not tall enough to display more than 2 lines of text (10
point Helvetica), which often makes it difficult to read the full comment
without scrolling the field. I like the look of the layout and would like to
avoid making the portal rows taller.

What I would prefer instead is to have the field, when brought to focus,
expand it's bottom border to accommodate the text. Barring that, I would
like to make the field a button that when clicked initiates a script that
copies (or sets) the text in that field to a larger, calculated text field
elsewhere on the layout.

The trick to that would be to get the value of the field being clicked on as
part of the script, but I can't find a script step or a function that does
that.

Is there a more legent solution at hand? Any solution would have to work in
FM 8.5/ 9

Thanks,

Gary



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