Quick way of reducing field width in a grid in design view?

rbuser

Sometimes, the fields dragged from the Data Tree are far too long.

The fields are inside the grid boxes. I can reduce the width by selecting
all of them and using shift-left-click to do this but it takes ages! I
tried selecting the corner and dragging - this doesn't seem to work. If I
set individual field widths from the pop-up, I risk losing the automatic
box/field alignment.

There must be a quick way to do this without losing the field/box
alignment?

TIA
Barry

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Dr Barry Clark
Senior Lecturer & IT Systems Designer
Medical Education Unit
Wolfson Medical Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel: 0141-330-4248
Email: b.clark@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

rbuser

Hi Barry,

Unfortunately there is no other way to shrink them as you described.

regards,
Chris Ueberall;

nicocizik

Barry,

Chris is correct. There is no way to change the size of the field box. The
boxes are defined by the actual field length stored in the database. You
can view the field length by stretching the Data Tree to show the field
size.

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rbuser

Hi Nico,

may I suggest that the calculation of the width should be changed in one of the next maintenance updates?
First the field should never lap behind the report's area!
There should be second a factor that the user/developer can manipulate where the real width will be: WidthCalculatedByReportBuilder * factor = real width.

Cheers,
Chris Ueberall;

rbuser

How difficult would it be to modify RB so you could pick up the corner of a
selected group and drag it be shorter - while mataining the correct box to
field spacings? Could you consider this for a future release, as often we
are working with legacy data, and the original designers seemed not to know
what field lengths to set!

THanks

Barry