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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johan,
Just a quick clarification.

>
>>
>> Acutally, I thought it was only 20 in DHIS 1.4? What happens at import
>> then? btw, the maximum length is very useful, not only for the technical
>> reasons already mentioned, but also for making nice reports (without just
>> cutting away the often important last part of a DE name). That's the main
>> reason from a users perspective.
>
>
It is in fact 25 (in DHIS 1.4 build 112), I just checked. The shorter DOS
name is limited to 8 characters for exports to things like DBF4.


Regards,
Jason