idno maxlength is 30 in the UI, but is 255 in the database?

chrisbartley

On one of my screens, I have the idno defined like this:

<placement code="idno"> <bundle>idno</bundle> <settings> <setting name="label" locale="en_US">Gigapan ID</setting> <setting name="add_label" locale="en_US">Gigapan ID</setting> <setting name="description" locale="en_US">The gigapan ID. This is typically the numerical portion at the end of the Gigapan's URL from gigapan.org</setting> </settings></placement>

As rendered in HTML, the element looks like this:

Where does the maxlength come from?  I don't set it anywhere in my config xml, nor do I see it in the base.xml.  The backing field in the DB appears to be a varchar(255).  And I can't find where to change it in the settings. I'd rather not change it in the config XML at this point since I have existing data in the system and can't just blow it all away and start over.  I did at least find the field in the editor UI settings (screenshot attached), but the values for width and height have no effect.

Thanks!

yelto

Have you looked in app/conf/multipart_id_numbering.conf ?

seth

As Yelto mentioned you can set the length (and lots of other things) regarding identifiers in app/conf/multipart_id_numbering.conf 

You can read about the options in that config file here: http://docs.collectiveaccess.org/wiki/Multipart_id_numbering.conf <div>Generally speaking, if you are using really long > 30 character identifiers you're probably doing something wrong though.

seth

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chrisbartley

Ah, perfect!  Thanks to both.  That fixed it.