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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/11/16 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

> > So your proposed solution is to keep the length but remove the
> > uniqueness?
> >
> >
> Nope that constraint is also relied upon. I guess people who are doing
> manual imports can change the length constraint in the database at their
> own
> risk.
>

The issue is the same if we use the import routine: How do we deal with
thousands of orgunit imports? What do you currently do with long names?

Knut



> --
> Orgunit shortname field should be as long as name field in db
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483096
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> Status in DHIS 2 - District Health Information Software: New
>
> Bug description:
> Having the shortname field in the database limited to only 25 characters
> makes it hard to import facilities (especially in combination with the other
> constraints of NOT NULL and UNIQUE (the latter should be removed, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dhis2/+bug/370791).
>
> If we do want to limit the lengths of shortnames users can enter, this
> should be an administrative setting.
>
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Cheers,
Knut Staring