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Migration Guide for Allegro Platform Products Core Allegro Platform Back-End Products October 2019 53 Product Version 17.4-2019 © 1999-2019 All Rights Reserved. HTML Text in Label Fields With the 17.4 release, text label fields may now include HTML text for improved display, formatting, and customization. From a migration perspective, you should consider removing your manual text formatting of longer text fields and replacing it with HTML content. This will allow the form renderer greater freedom, particularly when the form is resizeable, to adjust the layout for optimal readability. Elements which can be used now include things like for bold and for underline. However, other instructions for line returns, indentation, bullet and numbered lists, and more may all be used. In the following example, bold underline tags have been added around just the word wizard in the text of the board wizard. Prior to this release, this was not possible. Integer and Real Field Range Checks In past releases, if you specified a minimum or maximum value for your integer or real fill-in fields, the value would only be compared to these ranges when your user attempted to tab out of the field. If it was not in compliance, the value would be rejected, and the old value restored. With 17.4, the form will continually validate the value. This means that, if the maximum value allowed is 100, then you cannot enter a value of 105, as this does not mean the legal range for the field. To make this simpler for your user, when your form has a status line at the bottom, when the user activates a field with a range limitation, the limits will be displayed in the status line automatically. By doing this, the user knows why they cannot enter a given value, rather than