Line break in schedules

[Karol Lozinski]

Hi! I made a schedule for doors and I have a text field with additional info to each door. Issue is simple - the text is a simple string in which I simply cannot break the lines. Simple enter obviously doesn't work. I also tried \n, \r, \n\, alt + 013, paragraph symbol, all of them - none works. Is there any method to do so?

[poco2013]

You did not say what "text/comment/note" field you used -- so can't help there.

However, expressions will accept returns/line breaks in strings and it will show,as such, in schedules. Just link its classification to "doors" for all doors or make a new classification for a specific door.

[Anonymous]

I too have the same problem with the wall schedule.
From the General section I have added a field (custom text) but cannot add line breaks.
I need to do this as I want to list one after another on separate lines each element that makes up the wall
I cannot find the option for "comment" or "note" when I press the "add fields" button

[jl_lt]

Hi all. Same problem here. I added door and window info in the "model" space in IFC categories. The door and window schedule reads it, but presents it in one single line which is unusable. Any options for breaking text into many lines?

[jl_lt]

Hi. I actually solved my issue. I just eliminated the field in the schedule, exited the edition window and then added it again. then in the actual schedule, on the edit text bar, i pressed "adjust text" and it worked like it always does.

[JaseBee]

Just came across this problem (again, ugh) but finally came up with a possible (albeit dirty) workaround.

Just add a bunch of spaces... 😞

It's not pretty, but I write most things I need to schedule to dedicated properties that only get displayed on a schedule.  So in the properties expression if you just add a bunch of spaces it will stop adding them when it forces the text to the next line in the cell.

You could also have the expression recognise a certain character as a line break (and just add the spaces).

Just trialling it now, let me know if it works for you.

[Durval]

How do you get a return/line break in an expression? Trying to do this inisde a CONCAT function, but did not succeed.

[JaseBee]

I played around with this idea after my last post and I think I found it didn't work in some instances, but I can't remember what those instances were.

Anyway if you schedule a property with something like this... 

CONCAT ( "Text1", "                   ", "Text2" )

Then all the spaces push the text2 down onto the next line. Text wrap must be enabled in the schedule and the number of spaces needed must exceed the column width (extra spaces don't get added to the next line so go nuts 😛 ).

Like I said, real dirty workaround.

[LeeJaeYoung]

Is line break enabled in the schedule?
Don't do it with a lot of space

[Ben-Abo]

Hi, I found the solution, if still anyone looking for it.

Just tick Wrap text, in Text style.