This is a Change ID from my 8.1.
CRQ000000000001
It is still 15 characters.
-----Original Message-----
From: Thad Esser <[email protected]>
To: arslist <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Mar 3, 2015 6:22 pm
Subject: Request ID Field length for ARS 8.1.2
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Am I reading that right? That in 8.1.2, they've shortened the field length of
field ID 1 down to 8 characters? Is that across the board or just in some
cases? That seems like a big change. I didn't see anything in the release
notes on the docs website. We are on 8.1.0, and were contemplating 8.1.2 so
wanted to make sure there weren't any surprises.
Thanks,
Thad
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Carina Burns <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thank you for your response. I did have it set to update old records with new
data. It turns out that the issue was the length of the entry id/issue id
field. In prior versions of ARS, the field was 15 characters long. We've been
on it since version 4.5 and hence had forms that had the longer field length.
The core field 1, reserved for entry id numbers, is 8 characters long in the
8.12 version. Since we are migrating rather than upgrading (which preserved
the existing column definition length apparently), the import tool, instead of
truncating the data in the entry id field, used a default fall back mapping to
auto increment (though a fall back mapping wasn't set). So I guess I'm off to
go truncate some leading zeros!!!
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