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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Crizelle,

good point. It's actually supposed to be 160, I have corrected that now.
The misfit between db constraint and ui constraint is unfortunate but its
the UI one that's most reasonable.

The reason why we constrain it is that these kind of very long names really
makes the UI unusable - its impossible to read in most analysis modules and
you often cannot see the end of the text in the maintenance UI.

160 character is a pretty long name when you think of it. I would say its
not good practice to have such long names - better to find a way to reduce
the length of the name...

regards,

Lars


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The dataelement table allows for DE names to be up to 230 characters. But
> when adding a DE name through the UI there is a limitation of 150
> characters.
>
> Can someone perhaps explain why this is?
>
> We have a project (Core Standards) where the DE names are in most cases >
> 150 char. The DE names were imported into the DHIS2 using csv without
> problems. In fact, everything (custom data entry forms, custom reports,
> pivot table) works fine and displays the full name. But when editing the
> name through the UI the changes cannot be saved if the name exceeds 150
> char.
>
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> Regards,
> Crizelle Nel
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