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A library resource discovery portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries
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Text messages too short, cut off information #383

Open gibsonjc opened 5 years ago

gibsonjc commented 5 years ago

SIC - Is there a character limit on the text call number feature in Vufind 4.0? We are only getting partial location info coming through the text message for our LC location. Granted, the location is very long: LC Books: (A-HG: 6th fl.) (HJ-T: 5th fl.) (TA-Z: 4th fl.)

This comes through in the text message as LC Books: (A-HG: 6th fl.) (H.. the rest is cut off

See example: https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/vf-sic/Record/SICdb.1701330

Other locations work fine but none of them are as long as the LC Books.

Can the location length be adjusted in VUfind 4.0 or do we need to change the label on that location? The feature worked in Vufind 0.6.

RT 101969

gibsonjc commented 5 years ago

In Issue #154 we found that there appears to be a hard-coded limit on the number of characters in a text message that is sent by New VuFind: 147 (or 148) characters. We limited the number of characters in the Title and Location fields so that the URL at the end is not cut off and therefore unusable. Is there anything different that can be done to force the system to send more than one text message if the text is too long so that we don't have to truncate these fields as much?

Perhaps we can research other institutions using VuFind 4.x and see if their text messages suffer from this same problem.

gibsonjc commented 5 years ago

@cedelis Marking this as priority for now so you can research the text message length and see if anything can be done on our end. Thanks!