Editing Text Properties
When editing text properties, most common features of text editing tools are available, such as inserting text at a selected position, marking text you want to overwrite, copying, pasting, and deleting, and so on. You can use standard keyboard shortcuts to cut text or copy text to the system clipboard, or paste text from the system clipboard. This includes the ability to copy text from external sources such as documents or Web pages and to paste the text as marker notes or segment annotation. The text is pasted without formatting. You can also do the reverse: copy text and paste it into an external source, such as Notepad.
Note the following:
• The input in text properties can be limited:
- For Production Management assets, text input is limited to 32 kilobytes data.
- For Asset Management assets, input can be limited for each text property by the configuration in the data model.
- Pasting a huge amount of text (about 100,000 characters and more) into a text property might cause the browser page to hang.
If the text input exceeds the limitation, a pop-up “It is not possible to save text with more than <X> characters” is shown. When the property is saved, the text that exceeds the allowed range is cut.
• For each text property, the displayed text length is limited to five rows. If the property text cannot be displayed completely, the text ends in an ellipsis. Hover the mouse pointer over the text field to show a pop-up that contains additional lines of text. Click in the collapsed text field to expand it and display the entire text. The cursor is positioned at the end of the text.
- When at least the last line of the expanded text field is visible and you click outside the text field without entering edit mode for another field, the text is collapsed and the tab scrolls back to the first line of the collapsed text attribute.
- When you click outside the text field and enter edit mode for another field, the text is collapsed but the tab focus remains on the new field in edit mode.
The same applies when the expanded text field is not visible because you scrolled while editing and you click outside the text field without entering edit mode for another field: the tab does not scroll back but the focus remains on the area where you clicked.
• As long as your changes have not been saved, you can undo your changes in the text field by repeatedly pressing Ctrl+Z and redo by repeatedly pressing Ctrl+Y.
Alternatively, press the Esc button. This discards your input and ends editing mode.
• By default (auto-save enabled), changes are automatically saved when you position the cursor outside the edited field (by clicking or pressing the Tab key). Undo is not possible.
If auto-save is disabled, click the Save button to save your changes. Undo is not possible.
To edit a text property:
1. Click in the field to set it to edit mode.
If the field already contains text, the cursor is positioned at the end of the text.
2. Do one of the following:
(optional) Move the cursor to the position you want to add text.
Type your text.
Paste text copied from external programs or metadata fields using Ctrl+V.
To overwrite text, highlight the text and then start typing or paste copied text into the field.
To undo your text input, press Ctrl+Z (repeatedly).
To redo your text input, press Ctrl+Y (repeatedly).
Press the Esc button. This discards your input and ends editing mode.
3. Click outside the text field or press the Tab key.
4. To remove text from a text property, click in the field and do one of the following:
Highlight the text to be deleted and then press the Del or Backspace key.
To delete the characters one by one to the left side of your cursor position, press the Backspace key.
To delete the entire text, press Ctrl+A and then the Del or Backspace key.
5. (only required if auto-save is disabled) Click the Save button to save your changes.