Create a Dynamic Text Attribute

How can I create a dynamic text attribute, in which the user writes a specific word and that word automatically gets bold.
SystemAdmin - Thu Jul 30 08:48:59 EDT 2009

Re: Create a Dynamic Text Attribute
dpechacek - Thu Jul 30 12:03:29 EDT 2009

You can have a trigger on the attribute so that when you change the value of the attribute from the empty string, it wraps the text in the bold RTF tags. That should work. After the first time, any new text entered should also be bold. But you'd have to test that.

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Re: Create a Dynamic Text Attribute
SystemAdmin - Mon Aug 31 12:47:15 EDT 2009

David,
I checked on what you told me but it did not work, any other way or an example? Thanks.

Re: Create a Dynamic Text Attribute
llandale - Tue Sep 01 15:15:52 EDT 2009

SystemAdmin - Mon Aug 31 12:47:15 EDT 2009
David,
I checked on what you told me but it did not work, any other way or an example? Thanks.

He means a pre-save-attr trigger, that gets the value about to be saved to the attribute, finds the word in question, surrounds it with bold RTF codes, and uses the "void value(Trigger t, Buffer b)" command to set the value, and approve the pre-trigger. I've never done that.

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