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

[raymondub]

Yes there s indeed a problem with those non existing checks... I was very
surprised when i made my tests cause when i studying IT at school and after
at work developping applications, those kind of checks where one of the 1st
things that i was doing.. Maybe they just forgot it :-) It s sad that they
made it only i think for the email. Maybe they ll make it for the next
version...
I was changing the type of the field i m talking about in my previous
message and there was no warning telling that the field in the database was
too small to save the text in the textbox.

Pat

Nicolas Larcipretti wrote:
> 
> 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.
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