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Feature proposal #6048

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Increase field name length

Added by krileon almost 8 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
krileon
Target version:
-
Start date:
20 June 2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

Field names are currently limited to 50 characters. Increase this to 255 or at the least 100-150 to allow for longer more specific field names.

https://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/233973-what-is-the-maximum-lenght-of-a-custom-field-s-internal-name#282813

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Updated by beat almost 8 years ago

Imho, that's a limit of the MySQL column names.

We should add a maximum length to the xml for the field name instead of allowing more.

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Updated by krileon almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Rejected
  • Target version deleted (CB 2.0.15)
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

The limit appears to be 64 for column names, but it's probably not a good idea to even touch the limit. Believe we should stay at 50. Rejecting ticket.

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