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[Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> When importing dataelements, it becomes a problem that shornames have to be
> both unique AND max 25 characters. I think we should loosen the second
> requirement in the db. It must be up to the users to make their shortnames
> sufficiently short, not a db constraint.
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I disagree, it makes more sense to keep it the way it is... a reason its
called short name ;-)
and building boundaries on the data model is a best practice of sorts.
Some other solution may just be able to solve the problem??

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Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
Director R & D, HISP India
Health Information Systems Programme

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