In some cases, users would like to see truncated description forms instead of the full descriptions.
For example, in the Strategy Tutorial project, for the 'Month' attribute, instead of seeing the description as 'September 2007, users might prefer to see 'Sep'.
To achieve this, the users can make use of an Apply Simple statement through a new attribute form in the attribute form expression editor.
Apply Simple is the most commonly used Apply function; the output is the same object type as the input and it can be used in many different editors. In this case, the following syntax can be used:
ApplySimple("SUBSTR(#0,1,3)", )
Apply this syntax, as shown in the screen shot below:
The Oracle function SUBSTR allows users to extract a substring from a string. The syntax for the substr function SUBSTR(A, B,C) trims a text variable A to C number of characters starting on the B-th character of the string.
