How Can I change max length field in exist table

Gaetano De Mitr · ‎03-31-2017

Hi,

How Can I change max length field in exist table?

I must update a field with max length 8 to 255 . Field type is String.

max length field not update when I update.

Thanks,

Mihir Mohanta · ‎03-31-2017

Once I came across this type of scenario. There were a large numbers of records present in the table where I had to do modifications of an existing field's dictionary.While I tried to change, system hangs.

(That is because while you change anything in the dictionary of field system generally search for every records of that table to find out if any value stored on that field or not )

That was an import set table. So I cleaned up the records in Development instance.Modified the fields dictionary.

This was captured in the update set.So wile moving that update set it just committed successfully and there was no need of clean up these records again in Production.

If you are introducing a new field and that has been not moved to production till now then you can delete it and create a new field and move that to production.

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joanmarisse · ‎03-31-2017

Hi,

Please check here: How to change label size. field type is string and its label default size is 80...please help me out

This might help you.

Thanks!

Gaetano De Mitr · ‎03-31-2017

No, but I must change LENGTH VALUE of field and not label .

Alikutty A · ‎03-31-2017

Can you show a screen print of the field that you are changing? Are you getting any error message while changing the max length?

Thanks

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Gaetano De Mitr · ‎03-31-2017

No error.

The transaction reaches 298 seconds and crashes. Without any error message.