how to create memo field with al

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I need to create text field in my item table. I searched a lot an I found something thats looks like : https://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/smallsquareservices/posts/using-memo-blob-to-enable-huge-text.

But it's an old one and there was breaking changes since release 15.

Can someone help me ?

Thanks

Patrick

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Hello,

It looks like the same idea applies in AL (Memo for Blob data type)

docs.microsoft.com/.../blob-data-type

I can't provide any sample code, although someone from the community may be able to do that.

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Thanks for your help.

As it was very urgent, I tried many things and finally I found a solution which is valid in version 15 and above.

I hope it will help someone else.

Patrick

1) In the table ext : create a blob

  field(55093; Avantages; Blob)

        {

            Subtype = Memo;

            Caption = 'Avantages';

            DataClassification = ToBeClassified;

        }

2) in the table ext create 2 procedures

Those procedures will make the data exchange between the Text field on screen and the blob field in database

PROCEDURE SetAvantages(NewText: Text);

    VAR

        OutStr: OutStream;

    BEGIN

        CLEAR(Avantages);

        IF NewText = '' THEN

            EXIT;

        Avantages.CreateOutStream(OutStr);

        OutStr.WriteText(NewText);

        MODIFY;

    END;

    PROCEDURE GetAvantages(): Text;

    VAR

        InStr: InStream;

        outText: Text;

    BEGIN

        CALCFIELDS(Avantages);

        IF NOT Avantages.HASVALUE THEN

            EXIT('');

        Avantages.CreateInStream(InStr);

        InStr.ReadText(outText);

        EXIT(outText);

    END;

3) in the page ext : create a TEXT variable

at the bottom

var

        AvantagesText: Text;

4) in the page ext : create a TEXT field

field(AvantagesText; AvantagesText) <= the variable create in (3)

                {

                    Caption = 'Avantages';

                    ApplicationArea = All;

                    Editable = true;

                    MultiLine = true;

                    trigger OnValidate()

                    begin

                        SetAvantages(AvantagesText);

                    end;

                }

5) in the page ext : add a trigger for filling text variable with bob content on reading

trigger OnAfterGetRecord()

    begin

        AvantagesText := GetAvantages();

    end;

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