Nice job on tablemanger. I note that there is a text data type. Possible for "textarea" data type? Or, to expand the input and display boxes for text columns as textareas in order to allow for large text data entry?

Or, am I missing how to do this now?

Thanks!

-ron

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pobster commented

Well... You *should* be able to put as much text as you like in the textbox and if you're using the 'full html' filter you'll be able to use linebreaks and paragraph tags as well... There is no textarea data type as I never thought that it'd be useful? But well... If it is then I'll stick it in the new version I'm working on for Drupal 5.0

Thanks

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pobster commented

...If you just want to temporarily change the 'textfield' to a 'textarea' in the code that'll work btw, yes - it is *that* easy ;o)

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pobster commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
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cgn commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Hi, sorry if I reopen this issue again, but I went through it just now.
The length of the text is limited to 255 characters, because the "Edit table xx Entry" form contains the "maxlength=255" attributed on the text field. At least this is my case. Would it be possible to remove this limitation?

Thanks!

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pobster commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Afraid Tablemanager is in a dark, dark place at the moment... I'm having major gripes with using sql and column sorting - it's just not flexible enough for what I/ we need to do... Anyhow, the long and short of this means that Tablemanager is in a feature freeze until I can make up my mind what the best course of action is (I'm only going to bug fix until then and this isn't technically a bug - just remove that line from your tablemanager_add and tablemanager_edit functions and meh, can't see any reason why it won't work! Ideally with the forthcoming version a textarea will be a 'type' so you'll have the choice between textfield and textarea.)

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