Author Topic: Custom Fields Shared Across Multiple Subtypes - Limited To 64 Characters In DB?? (Read 650 times)

rjb · March 10, 2011, 09:55:34 am

Hi, all.

I need to create a custom data group with custom fields for eight organization subtypes. However, even though I multiselect these 8 subtypes in the gui, only two of them are 'taking'. When I checked it out in phpmyadmin, I can see that these two are saved in civicrm_custom_group | extends_entity_column_value and a third is cut off after a few characters. The other five don't appear.

Is this because there's only room for 64 characters in the field?

Is there a workaround for this? It's really fairly critical for me. I guess my subtypes have fairly long names but I wouldn't have thought this should be a big problem.

Here's hoping...

RJB

Donald Lobo · March 10, 2011, 11:00:33 am

your current workaround is:

1. alter the column in the table to be 512 characters or so

2. just to be safe also fix the length of that field here: CRM/Core/DAO/CustomGroup.php

3. File an issue with a patch that:

a. Fixes the xml file and increases the length
b. make the change to the upgrade script to alter the table

thanx

lobo

rjb · March 11, 2011, 07:17:25 am

Thanks, Lobo.

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