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The Sametime 7.5 meeting center client has a bit of an obvious bug in one of the touted new features, it's a bit of a pain as it does generate support calls, which every enterprise hates, but it is fairly easy to fix with a little domino designer work. I shared this fix with attendees at the Collaboration University and as that event is over now, I can share it with you. The bug is basically that the text for a meeting description does not wrap in the meeting client, so all that useful information a user enters about the meeting is often not seen by users, as can be seen here



The fix will make the text look like this



We can't modify the Sametime Meeting Center applet, so we have to find a way to modify the text before it gets to the meeting center applet. We can do this by modifying the Meeting Center database stconf.nsf (or the template if you still inherit the template design), here are the steps to address the issue:

1. Open suBforms WebMeeting-IE and WebMeeting-Moz and make the following changes to both subforms
2. Locate the line that contains <label for="bo">
3. Click on the Rich Text field "Body" that is on the same line
4. Select the Web JavaScript onBlur event for the field
5. Enter the following JavaScript
   
   String.prototype.wordWrap =function(m, b, c){
       var i, j, s, r = this.split("\n");
       if(m > 0) for(i in r){
          for(s = r[i], r[i] = ""; s.length > m;
          j = c ? m : (j = s.substr(0, m).match(/\S*$/)).input.length - j[0].length
          || m,
          r[i] += s.substr(0, j) + ((s = s.substr(j)).length ? b : "")
          );
          r[i] += s;
          }
       return r.join("\n");
   };
   this.value = this.innerText.wordWrap(50, '\n', false);

Save the subforms, and try creating a meeting with some long text for the description, and you should find the text now wraps.