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Character limits #173

Open clroever opened 7 years ago

clroever commented 7 years ago

I am entering a record into the metadata editor now, and I keep running into the character limit. If fields that have character limits, can we include those values somewhere in the text. This way users will be able to adjust their text accordingly without needing to guess. Thank!

ccasey645 commented 7 years ago

I believe anything that isn't a multi-line text input box, like the title, has a character limit of 255. I don't remember if this limit was imposed specifically because the database string type could only be 255 characters long, or if that was an arbitrary limit, so I will investigate. I do remember a limit was decided on was to save space in the database: if records can have unlimited length inputs, then they take up a lot more space in the database then if they have a fixed size. But if users are running up against the limits then the limits need to be re-evaluated.

I will investigate, and make an update. For reference, how long is the text you are putting in? So I can get an idea on how long to make the new limits.

clroever commented 7 years ago

I think the limit should stay in place as is. I agree that we don't want too much text in the abstract. I am just trying to cut down this person's introduction and turn it into an abstract and it would be easier if I knew what the character limit was.

Thanks for letting me know.

Carrie

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Carrie L. Roever, PhD

Environmental Data Manager

Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) / University of Idaho

https://www.northwestknowledge.nethttp://www.northwestknowledge.net/

croever@uidaho.edu

Office: 208.885.7129

From: ccasey645 notifications@github.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:58:27 AM To: northwest-knowledge-network/mdedit Cc: Roever, Carrie (croever@uidaho.edu); Author Subject: [BULK] Re: [northwest-knowledge-network/mdedit] Character limits (#173)

I believe anything that isn't a multi-line text input box, like the title, has a character limit of 255. I don't remember if this limit was imposed specifically because the database string type could only be 255 characters long, or if that was an arbitrary limit, so I will investigate. I do remember a limit was decided on was to save space in the database: if records can have unlimited length inputs, then they take up a lot more space in the database then if they have a fixed size. But if users are running up against the limits then the limits need to be re-evaluated.

I will investigate, and make an update. For reference, how long is the text you are putting in? So I can get an idea on how long to make the new limits.

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ccasey645 commented 7 years ago

I think the "abstract" field has a limit of 3000 characters, and the research method is unlimited. But I can change the limits on the title, etc. to make sure users can input what they need to.

Also, it is possible to have a "remaining characters" counter next to the description of form fields. This would let the user know how many characters they can put in to each field. Do you think this would be useful?

clroever commented 7 years ago

I think it is fine as is, but the "remaining characters" counter would be wonderful. Thank you!

——

Carrie L. Roever, PhD

Environmental Data Manager

Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) / University of Idaho

https://www.northwestknowledge.nethttp://www.northwestknowledge.net/

croever@uidaho.edu

Office: 208.885.7129

From: ccasey645 notifications@github.com Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 9:11:07 AM To: northwest-knowledge-network/mdedit Cc: Roever, Carrie (croever@uidaho.edu); Author Subject: [BULK] Re: [northwest-knowledge-network/mdedit] Character limits (#173)

I think the "abstract" field has a limit of 3000 characters, and the research method is unlimited. But I can change the limits on the title, etc. to make sure users can input what they need to.

Also, it is possible to have a "remaining characters" counter next to the description of form fields. This would let the user know how many characters they can put in to each field. Do you think this would be useful?

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