Handling multi-line strings in customised WFM instantiation screen

brizrobbo

Using WFM we have customised the instantiation screen using iwmodeldct to create the

/custom_instantiation.cfg

file. We then modified the custom_instantiation.cfg file and converted the text fields to textareas.

<text required="f" />

was changed to..

<textarea required="t" rows="2" cols="50" wrap="off"/>

The "required", "rows" and "cols" parameters all work fine.

We have also tried

<textarea required="t" rows="2" cols="50" wrap="virtual"/>

and

<textarea required="t" rows="2" cols="50" wrap="physical"/>

However, when multi-line text entries are entered into these textareas the corresponding configurable variable values are truncated at the first carriage return.

eg.
"foo\n
bar\n
ed\n"

becomes
"foo"

Does anyone know if it is possible using WFM to accept text strings with carriage returns from the instantiation screen for use in configurable variables?

We suspect that this may be related to how the default custom_instantiation JavaScript handles these strings.

Adam Stoller

I realize it's not of much help, because I don't have time right now to try to look it up - but I recall running into this also.

You might try searching this forum for posts between February and June of last year (that's about the time frame that I was working on it - and I likely posted something)

I'll try to remember to see if I can find my notes / posts / whatever later today if you haven't got this resolved by then (I don't remember if I got it resolved)