Join Form Caption Are Truncated From Database LKey

Since Boonex in their lack of wisdom did not provide an html block for the Join Form builder so we could post additional messages on the Join Form, I was going to use a new block and add the message to the caption.  However, they decided for some bleeding reason to truncate the caption as it is retrieved from the database.  The whole text is stored in the key, and it can be edited in the languages by entering the key in the filter box the same as you can any other language key.  I would be very appreciative if someone could point me to the code where they are truncating the caption key.

It would be nice to know how I can stop the truncation of the Caption.

Girl- go on your flippin holiday and have fun!

A better solution would be a html block we can apply to the join form.  I have added a block of text to the join page, that appears on all pages and is not specific to a section of the join form.  I tried to help someone with this issue awhile back.  Now here I am needing the same thing and I bet others have as well.

No time for fun yet:

I am talking about the JOIN FORM.  Awhile back a person came on here asking the same question, he wanted to add an html block before one of the join form sections to present explanations/instructions for that section.  Boonex did not add that feature to the join form; would be a nice mod add-on.

Now, I was going to use the Caption part of the section, when you add a new section to the form, you can put in a Caption.  However, even through the caption is stored as a regular language key in the database, when the join form is generated, that caption is truncated; don't ask me why Boonex did this.  So, if I can find the code that is truncating this Caption when the join form is generated, I can remove that and use the Caption to give instructions.

ok, this may seem like a retarded solution/question - but isnt that what the info section is for? It has the blue circle with an exclamation mark, and hovering over it would give the description for that field. I only bring this up because it is how I accomplished what you are trying to do.

Yes, you can do that, for an individual item.  I want to put a text above a section of field items.  I can accomplish this through the caption if it did not truncate.  I guess I will put an email off to AlexT as he is the only developer that even reads the bleeding Forums.  I am getting a little pissed at the lack of support from Boonex, I might send a letter to Andrew Boon as well.  I would really be pissed off if I paid $799 and got no support.

Alex, any help on where this truncation is performed?

You did remove the whitespace: nowrap from the css for those headings correct?

How many characters are you trying to enter?

I did a test with over 700 chars and had no problem. The nowrap on the css had to be removed tho.

I am not sure folks are following me so I am doing the photo worth a thousand words.  This issue was actually brought up by someone else that I tried to help.  The form builder does not have a text box we can add to the form.  We can go to the page builder and add a HTML block, but that block will appear on ALL pages on the join form.  If someone wants to hack in a text block for the join form, that is the best solution.  Until then, I figure a work around would be to add a section to the join form and put the text into the blue builder item without any sub fields for that section.  However, I found that the text is truncated even though it is stored in the database in its entirety.  It is not the whitespace on this.  I figured that it is truncated using substring or some other function of PHP.  See the images to get an idea.  In the first image there are more words after the tex; it was truncated at tex.

As I said, being able to add text to the join form without this "workaround" would be nice but it is not part of the current Dolphin join form builder.

Thats just it.

I can't reproduce it. I can't find what i can't reproduce or does not seem to exist on my site.

OK, let me go back and examine this again.  Evidently it is working for you and thus should work for me.

Ugh!  LOL, it is no longer truncating and that is strange.  I wish someone had tested this and inform me that it was not doing so on their site.  Sometime Dolphin is so frustrating.  I wonder why it was truncating before?