[Vtigercrm-developers] [vtigercrm-developers] UITYPE & TYPEOFDATA map for vtiger 5.x

Nicolas Larcipretti niclarcipretti at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 11:09:47 PDT 2012


So I'm not a lunatic after all ;)

2012/4/25 Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net>

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Nicolas Larcipretti
> <niclarcipretti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, in fact those parameters work in a very weird way (IMHO) cause when
> > you create a new field using the max lenght, for instance, vtiger uses
> this
> > parameter to create the database field, but, instead of checking if the
> user
> > typed more then X chars, it simply "chops" the string and insert it
> anyway
> > (please guys, correct me if this happens because some deep shit I've
> made to
> > the system). So, if this behavior is ok to you, go ahead and be happy :)
> > cause for me it just wasn't.
>
> This assessment sounds like what we've experienced here as well.  We
> had a VARCHAR(20) field to record an external purchase order number
> and some users were entering multiple PO,PO,PO all into the one field,
> and it would truncate at the field length as you described.
> _______________________________________________
> http://www.vtiger.com/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/attachments/20120425/4073f301/attachment.html 


More information about the vtigercrm-developers mailing list