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Re: Limit characters in Comment

 

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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:27 AM, channara rin <rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Great, Thank you.
> SO i need to modify the 360 in history.js file?
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> AND another problem is. when has comment, can show highlight data value in
> dataset that has text in that comment? SO it is easy for us(M&E staff) to
> view if that data value has comment..
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> Thank you
> CHANNARA
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> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> Hi Channara,
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>> the max is actually 255 characters, backed by a "varchar" column in the
>> database. I'm sorry but we don't plan to change it to a "text" type column
>> anytime soon - reason is just that most comments are pretty short and
>> "text" requires more storage space on disk.
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>> Now that said you are of course free to change the column type to text
>> directly in your database, and then apply the patch copied below this email
>> to remove the validation.
>>
>> regards,
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>> Lars
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>> === modified file
>> 'dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-dataentry/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-dataentry/javascript/history.js'
>> ---
>> dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-dataentry/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-dataentry/javascript/history.js 2014-02-27
>> 04:15:35 +0000
>> +++
>> dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-dataentry/src/main/webapp/dhis-web-dataentry/javascript/history.js 2014-04-09
>> 08:01:57 +0000
>> @@ -5,14 +5,6 @@
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>>      var commentValue = $( '#commentTextArea' ).val();
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>> -    if ( commentValue.length > 360 )
>> -    {
>> -        markComment( COLOR_YELLOW );
>> -        window.alert(i18n_value_too_long + " for comment field");
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>> -        return;
>> -    }
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>>       var commentSaver = new CommentSaver( currentDataElementId,
>> currentOptionComboId, commentValue );
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>>      commentSaver.save();
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>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:55 AM, channara rin <rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>> Dear All,
>>> I found that, in the Comment in data value in dataset is
>>> limit character around 360characters.
>>> Can we extend to unlimited characters for comments?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> CHANNARA
>>>
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