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I noticed that pasting into property fields in the profound UI designer does not always seem to work.

For example, i had a very long SQL statement that i wanted to populate into the choice options field (and by long i mean over 100 characters).

So i brought up notepad and typed in the SQL statement. Once i had the statement fully written i selected it, hit copy, then went into the designer and pasted it into my choice options property field.

My drop down list did not populate, i got a blank list.

To figure out what went wrong, i started manually typing in the SQL statement piece by piece to see when it went wrong. (my drop down list was supposed to be policy year, followed by a colon, followed by the effective date (formatted), followed by the word "to" followed by the expiration date (formatted)).

So for instance i generated my list with just the policy year. It worked. I then added the policy effective date, and that worked too. Until i had the entire string written in the property field and it worked fine.

The string was identical to the one i had typed in notepad, however it appears that the paste command did something that the designer did not like.

Is this a known issue? Typing into the property fields is not always convenient when very long strings are sometimes needed.

We're not aware of any issues with copy/paste, although if you could provide a specific example of a text file which does not copy/paste into the window properly, we'd be glad to have a look at it.