topic Changing link.description field length in Alfresco Archive

Changing link.description field length

dwinfield — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:27:01 GMT

Has anyone found a way to increase the character limit for Links description fields? Right now it's 255 (or 256?) characters. It has been "suggested" to me that that's not enough. I went through the mysql database and none of the tables seemed to jump out at me. I've been going through the many

Re: Changing link.description field length

dwinfield — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:00:18 GMT

To give an update, I opened up the alfresco_node_properties table, found a link, and changed the description to contain 400 or so characters. This was saved to the database correctly

When viewing it, I can view all the characters. When I click to edit the link, it's truncated.

However, using firebug plugin for firefox, I see that the response does have all the text it the json representation. So really, what's limiting it? is it the fact that it's a "<textarea>" and maybe the yahoo SimpleEditor (or tiny mce) is supposed to take control of all of those elements?

Re: Changing link.description field length

mikeh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:23:01 GMT

It's in linkedit.js, line #251

// Description
this.widgets.linkForm.addValidation(this.id + "-description", Alfresco.forms.validation.length,
{
   max: 256,
   crop: true
}, "keyup");‍‍‍‍‍‍

Change 256 there - I'd recommend no more than 2048 though, otherwise you might start getting slow page loads, etc.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Changing link.description field length

dwinfield — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:13:12 GMT

Good lord, such an easy change. I think I searched for "255" instead of 256 and eclipse told me no results found…which is correct.

Much appreciated.