[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Use CLOB / Large character fields in ADM2 / Dynamics

[Håvard Danielsen]

There is a SmartLobField that allows a BLOB or CLOB field to be visualized and edited in ADM2. If the CLOB can be edited in an ABL editor I believe you can use this in a SmartViewer as long as you use a large editor. (I could be wrong) There are some standard/common SDO methods that cannot be used with LOBs in the SDO, as for example columnValue. There is a columnLongcharValue that can be used instead. I cannot remember columnValue being used by default adm2, so my guess (and hope) is that you can change this. If it is called from default adm2 then provide the stack trace. I can provide more details later if necessary, but not today.

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