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Increase input field length in GUI

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Terri Donahue
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Posted on 11/02/2016 15:45:49

The Link column in the ItemType_BannerSlideShow table is set to nvarchar(max). The input field in the GUI is limited in size to less than 360 characters - 309 characters to be exact. Can this field be expanded to allow longer URLs? We are having to manually update the database for any longer URLs.


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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 11/02/2016 16:14:03
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To add a bit more background to it: this isn't about a specific item type, but applies to the Link field you can add to any item. When you have a Link field the maximum length is capped in the UI, even though the underlying column could hold more data.

Imar

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 12/02/2016 16:16:07
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Well. It comes from the linkmanager control - and it is used on a LOT of different fields, most of which is 255 characters. The linkmanager has maxlength of 255.

Chaning it could be the cause of a lot of other issues then.

I would recommend using a text (Textarea), an editor or a URL shortener to work around it.

BR Nicolai