NX 7.5 Expression limits?

[mikebuchter]

We have a few really long expressions, and when we go into expressions dialog box and click on that specific expression, the formula is cutoff, we have to reject the edit and then go back into it, and the full formula is there.

Anyone else have this problem or is this some kind of bug, this never happened in NX5.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Are you sure that it's cut-off or just too long to be seen fully in the text entry widget? Have you tried to drag the cursor to the Right in the text entry widget to see if you can get to that part of the expression that was 'cut-off'?

That being said, for NX 8.0 we have addressed this issue by offering an alternative full-page entry window when editing an Expression. Note that when we say 'full-page', we don't mean that it fills the screen but rather that it does not truncate but rather allows the text string to wrap if it's longer than the width of the entry widget.

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[mikebuchter]

It is cut-off, when you hover over it the pop-up window shows it the same way, if you make any changes with it "cut-off" it will not accept the expression. The only way to get it back is to reject edit then the full expression shows up.

 

[JohnRBaker]

What version of NX are you running?

And so that we are talking about the same thing, you're referring to the widget (titled 'Formula') where you enter/edit the value of an Expression found near the bottom of the Expression dialog, right?

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[mikebuchter]

Here is a screenshot of the issue. We are running NX7.5.4.4 MP6.

 

[mikebuchter]

This is the screenshot of the full expression formula.

 

[JohnRBaker]

I tried to get something like this to fail in NX 7.5.5.4 but could not.

One thing I noticed, which may not be related to the problem but it would make your expression shorter, and that would be to leave out all of the blank spaces. While this might help the readability of this complex Expression, if it makes it harder to see the complete expression in the text entry widget on the Expression dialog, I would opt for less readability and more chance of seeing the entire expression in one place where I edit any place in the string easily.

BTW, I checked with ther developer and there is no explicit limit to the number of characters so that's not the problem.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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