Is it possible to limit the lines of text displayed in a Sharepoint list view

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I want to only show the first two lines of the "Solution" field, as otherwise with a long solution, it becomes very hard to browse the list. Is this possible? I've looked at the list and view options, and nothing is apparent.

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Cannot see image, corporate blockage, but for a text column this will work.

Create a new column and make it calculated, make the formula =left("your column",2000) then use the calculated column in your views.

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The value that is rendered in the All Items view is not based on the Template or control. It is rendered from the

    <RenderPattern Name="DisplayPattern">
  <Switch>
    <Expr><Column /></Expr>
    <Case Value="" />
    <Default>
      <Column SubColumnNumber="1" HTMLEncode="TRUE" />
      <HTML><![CDATA[,&nbsp;]]></HTML>
      <Column SubColumnNumber="0" HTMLEncode="TRUE" />
    </Default>
  </Switch>
</RenderPattern>

Tag of the Field Schema that you have defined. Display Template Defines the look of how it is being displayed in the Disp Form. Hope this helps.

It will be bit trick to get your format in the CAML Representation . You can get some infomration about the subject here

How to make a SharePoint 2013 “yes/no” list field to be displayed as a checkbox during inline editing

I'm afraid creating a SharePoint custom field type is the answer. Check out this guide

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417414(v=office.12).aspx

It's custom dev but it's not to complex. After you custom field type is deployed, you must modify your column to use this type instead of yes/no.

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