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Consider removing 255 character limit on rights field #490

Open philipashlock opened 9 years ago

philipashlock commented 9 years ago

The rights field is the only field with a character limit, but it's now being used for many different things:

Even using this to insert one of the FOIA exemption reasons for a redaction would exceed the 255 character limit.

Considerations:

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

I definitely think there should be guidance for filling out the rights field (see also #492) and long-term I'd like to see an accessRights field.

The brief FOIA descriptions on /redactions should be updated to be within the character limit.

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

Adding the new-field tag, as this may require a new field for all the different uses we are currently trying to fit into rights.