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When I use "Fully Expanded", not all of the text is visible
Christopher Brooks, 17 Sep 2001

Sometimes, if you select Fully Expanded, not all the text of the faq or forum will be visible, you will have to use the horizontal scrollbar to see the text on the right side. This can be a problem if you are trying to print out the faq or forum

This will occur if someone added a question or forum article or task in Plain Text instead of in HTML.

The fix is to send email to www@gigascale.org and ask that they change the mimeType for that article in the history table for your workgroup from text/plain to text/html

Note to admins:

  1. Go to http://www.gigascale.org/mysql
  2. Click on the workgroup that needs adjusting
  3. Click on the history link
  4. Browse to the article in question
  5. Change the mimeType field from text/plain to text/html

It would be nice if we could default to just using html, but people tend to type in text with blank lines as paragraph separators, and if we display this text in an html viewer, it will connect all the paragraphs together. This is a bug in the current system which we hope to fix some day, so in the short term, you are better off if you use the HTML mode.